SC - Re: A couple questions . . .

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Meliora & Drake wrote:
> 
> This may be the wrong forum, but what DO people consider to be "period"
> brewing sources?
> 
> Meliora.

Gervase Markham's "The English Housewife" is debatably period: while its
publication date is 1615 or so, the material in it had been written and
previously published up to twenty or more years earlier.

Other than that, there are numerous sources for individual recipes, or
small clusters of them. See the "Goud Kokery" volume of "Curye on
Inglysche" for early 15th-century recipes for mead and braggot. There
are a couple of recipes in the Forme Of Cury, also, from the 14th
century.

I believe there are a couple of 16th century ale recipes in (William?)
Harrison's account of his travels through England, dated around 1570. 

There is an early 14th century mead recipe in Ein Buoch Von Guter Spise,
and then, of course, there is the hydromeli recipe, really more of  a
description, in the Historia Naturalis of Pliny the Elder, 1st century
AD.

Probably the best place to start would be Cindy Renfrow's "A Sip Through
Time", and there are some resources on the Web, also.

Adamantius
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