SC - Foods that I won't eat
    Mark Schuldenfrei 
    schuldy at abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU
       
    Tue Jul  1 06:54:21 PDT 1997
    
    
  
  I would have said that a majority of the surviving medieval recipes which
  call for sweetener call for sugar rather than honey.  In particular, our
  favorite mulled wine (hippocras) recipe uses sugar.
Agreed so far:
  
I note, however, that your redaction uses boiling wine, when the original
calls for mixing with regular wine.
I have had hippocras made both ways (a friend has a source that involves
pouring the wine through a pile of spiced sugar, without boiling). I have
found that, overall, the taste of unboiled hippocris is superior.
Your mileage and tastes will vary, of course.
  "and two quarters of sugar and mix them with a quart of wine" [original]
  "sugar to 2 quarts of boiling wine" [redaction]
	Tibor
    
    
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