SC - Re: WASSAIL--Is There Documentation?

[LHG,JRG]

Thought the list would enjoy this discussion from rec.org.sca.

Aoife

djheydt at uclink.berkeley.edu (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:
>In article <63pqvv$44m$1 at news3.ptd.net>,
>LHG,JRG <liontamr at postoffice.ptd.net> wrote:
>>
>>Here we come a-wassailing
>>amongst the leaves so green......
>
>Martin Shaw, in the _Oxford Book of Carols,_ give early-to-mid-
>nineteenth-century sources for two versions of this song, indicates
>that one of them "seems to have copied it from source of the
>reign of James I or Charles I," and speculates that it may be as
>old as the Elizabethan period.
>
>Drinks for cold weather made of gently heated ale with stuff in
>it (oatmeal, roasted apples, whatever) seem to be fairly old.
>Dorothy Hartley, in _Food in England,_ quotes Shakespeare:
>
>	Sometimes lurk I in the gossip's bowl,
>	In very likeness of a roasted crab,         [meaning, crabapple]
>	And when she drinks, against her lips I bob,
>	And down her wrinkled dewlap pours the ale.
>
>But the recipe she gives is from 1722 and involves twice-fermented
>ale served at room temperature with hot roasted apples floating
>in it.
>
>That's all I can come up with at this hour of the morning.
>
>Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin			      Dorothy J. Heydt
>Mists/Mists/West				    Albany, California
>PRO DEO ET REGE					        djheydt at uclink
>(My account might go away at any moment; if I vanish, I haven't died.)



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