SC - Re: A couple questions . . .

[Cindy Renfrow]

Hello!  Thanks for the plug!  (BTW, suggested list for "A Sip Through Time"
is $18.00 U.S.  Dealer prices may vary.)

Regarding period brewing recipes, and cordials in particular, please be
very careful!  Many of the ingredients called for can be harmful.

A  Short list of Poisonous or Harmful plants to be Avoided:
Bittersweet (Solanum Dulcamara), Bog Myrtle (Sweet Gale, Myrica Gale),
Celandine Poppy, China Root, Florence Iris, Groundsel, Kill Lamb,
LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY, Orris Roots, Pennyroyal, Rhubarb Leaves, Sassafras,
Turnsole, Wormwood
SEEDS AND PITS OF: Apple, Apricot, Cherry, Citrus Fruit, Peach, Pear, Plum.
Crushing these pits releases hydrocyanic acid.

The Olde Cookery Page contains an abbreviated herbal, as well as lots of
brewing recipes: http://www.bahnhof.se/~chimbis/tocb/index.html

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Regards,

Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net
http://www.alcasoft.com/renfrow/asip.html

>  This may be the wrong forum, but what DO people consider to be "period"
>  brewing sources?
>
>Good forum.  There are better ones (the historical brewing mailing list
>comes to mind).
>
>Digby's great advantage: it's a brewing book, basically.  Nothing else comes
>close.
>
>There are smatterings of brewing recipes in Curye on Inglische, Menagier,
>Eleanor Fettiplace, and others.  Medicinal books often have cordial-like
>recipes.
>
>Some of the sources can be found in Renfrow's "A Sip Through Time", along
>with tons of post-period stuff.  (I think she reads this list, but I'll dare
>say anyway.... it's a pretty expensive tome, but it is also probably the
>only one-stop-shopping for medieval brewing that I know of.  I wouldn't have
>paid the stiff cover price, except I'm a completist for books.  Sigh.)
>
>I've put several recipes on the web: you can find them at
>    http://www.math.harvard.edu/~schuldy/brewing.html
>
>The are basically transcribed from some private email I sent a long time
>ago.  It's not to be taken as gospel: merely a convenience.
>
>	Tibor
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