SC - re: allergies and sca feasts

[kat]

At 8:47 AM -0500 7/15/97, Suzanne Berry wrote:
>  Well, I'll bite.  I have a recipie I've adapted from one that came off
>  the mead-brewer's digest list that I'm rather fond of, and is drinkable
>  quickly.  It is not period as I substitute After the Fall Georgia Peach
>  juice blend for the pear juice; and I do not have documentation at all,
>  I'm afraid.

...

>Earl Grey Mead    9/17/94
>1st - The Feast of the Mad Jailor
>
>24 oz pear juice, unstrained
>2 lb honey
>2 lb sugar
>100 oz water (about)
>10 bags of Earl Gray Tea

I don't see any reason why peach juice in mead is impossible in period,
although I don't know of any recipes that use it--and I don't know what
else the blend contains. But I don't believe tea is used in any period mead
recipe. In England, at least, tea seems to have only appeared in the 17th
century.

On the general subject of period mead, the situation is as follows:

There is a reasonably clear mead recipe in _Buch von Guter Speise_.

There are two unclear recipes in _Curye on Englysche_.

I think there is a recipe somewhere in _Le Menagier de Paris_ but am not sure.

There are lots and lots of recipes in _The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby
Opened_, which was published in the mid seventeenth century, compiled over
the previous few decades, so out of period but not by much.

Perhaps others can add to this.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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