Crossword-Solution: TUNNING 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Then lade out the Liquor again, as before; and if need be, change it again into another Kiver: all which is done to the end no dregs may go along with the Liquor in tunning it into the vessel.

Raspes and Cherries and Bilberies are never to be boiled, but their juyce put into the Liquor, when it is tunning.

Note, when any Meath or Metheglin grows hard or sower with keeping too long, dissolve in it a good quantity of fresh honey, to make it pleasantly Sweet; (but boil it no more, after it hath once fermented, as it did at the first Tunning) and with that it will ferment again, and become very good and pleasant and quick.

Here we have a somewhat less grimy original--perhaps it was actually the original--of Skelton's "Tunning of Elinor Rumming"; and in many places other patterns, the later reproductions of which are well known to readers of Boccaccio and the _Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles_ of La Fontaine and his followers.

Doesn't the beer want tunning, and thou'rt leesing there o' thy haunches; at thy whys and thy wise speeches.