Irish Cream Cordial
The recipe – no need for redaction here – is completely and utterly modern, no historical antecedents at all. Cordials were not sipping drinks in history, they were tonics – [..]
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Spiced Honey Walnut Cordial
What to do with a lot of brandy-soaked toasted English walnuts? Let’s see…make butter brickle candy and coat it with dark chocolate, that’s what! Have you tried this? Made it, [..]
Raisin Clove Melomel/Metheglin/Melometh
I believe this recipe is of my own devising by now, though it started with someone else’s. It was a favorite of my dear friend Elaine Koogler’s, known in the [..]
Middle Eastern Metheglin
This recipe is my own invention. I had mesquite honey, and was trying to match it with complimentary spices; it happened to correspond with teaching at a Middle Eastern- themed event. [..]
Killer Bee Braggot (Dark or Hefty Braggot)
This is one of my favorite recipes. It takes about ten months to age and holds well. Killer bee honey is dark, complex, very caramel-y – not like anything [..]
Autumn Spice Braggot
Not my recipe, but a darn good one. Have you tried this? Made it, tasted it? What did you do differently? Please let me know what you thought! 6.5 lb [..]