Category: Beverages

May 19, 2017 Rhonda

Celtic Lemonade

Summer is very much here, and it is time for backyard barbecues, beach parties, and music festivals, and you are going to get thirsty. You will want to cool off, but you don’t want to lose that buzz, so here is a light spirit that will keep any member of the Seven Nations happy, as well as most anyone else with Celtic blood in their veins. Here is the recipe for a gallon of the libation: 2 cups sugar 2/3 cup lemon juice (natural strength) 1 1/2 cup Scotch or Irish Whiskey Water to fill In your jug or pitcher, add sugar, juice, then Whiskey. Fill with water the rest of the way, shake or stir to mix, and serve……

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November 9, 2016 Cleave

Mead Recipes For Your Enjoyment

The following is from a very VERY old site I used to have, Celtic Voice, not up anymore. It shows 2 of my recipes for the alcoholic beverage known as mead, or honey wine. I am sure those in the SCA will remember some of this. Mead Recipes for your Enjoyment mead noun A fermented drink made of water and honey; mead. [<W. meddyglyn <meddyg, doctor, + llyn, liquor] New Practical Standard Dictionary, ©1956 metheglin noun A liquor of fermented honey and water to which malt, yeast, and spices are added; metheglin. See HYDROMEL New Practical Standard Dictionary, ©1956 hydromel noun A liquor, usually unfermented, consisting of honey diluted with water; when fermented, it is called mead. [<L. <Gr. hydor,……

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