Spam Horrors! Was Re: SC - head cook-serious then SILLY

[Merrie]

At 4:40 PM -0700 10/21/97, Marisa Herzog wrote:
>                      RE>>SC - Small Feasts-'unpl                  10/21/97

>>...Are there any "period" "sodas"?  Gingerbeer?  Birchbeer?  ale... etc?

I responded:

>I think that depends on what you mean by "soda." There are slightly alcoholic
>fizzy drinks, such as Kenelm Digby's "Weak Honey Drink," which we generally
>refer to as small mead and which is flavored with ginger (the recipe was
>published mid 17th <snip>

>I was thinking of brewed fermented things- I remember my dad experimenting for
>some time with this sort of thing when I was little.  At least once a week a
>bottle would "explode" and the house would smell of rootbeer or whatever he
>was experimenting with.
>-brid

That was probably something similar to Digby's weak honey drink, although
with different flavoring. Certainly period in the 17th century, I suspect
earlier as well.

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


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