SC - Spiced Wine
Mark Schuldenfrei
schuldy at abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU
Fri Apr 18 08:00:58 PDT 1997
Since I am a hobby vintner and have not come across any recipes that
included the offending spices and through conversations with professional
vintnors who produce spiced wine, e.g. Brotherhood "Holiday" wine, have not
found that these spices are used commercially, I still think that it would be
OK (not authentic necessarily. :-)) to use most commercial spiced wine in the
place of home-made Hippocras.
Of course it would.
But: since many hippocris recipes involve pouring wine through a strainer
filled with sugar and spices, it isn't all that hard to make hippocris from
scratch. No brewing, cooking or other work required.
I've longed to find the time to teach a class (and research a class) on
"period beverages for the non-brewer". And teach what commercial beverages
are appropriate and period inspired, or how to take commercial beverages,
and with very little effort, make a more inspiring drink. Someday.
Tibor
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