SC - Re: A couple questions . . .
Cindy Renfrow
renfrow at skylands.net
Fri Oct 17 19:11:35 PDT 1997
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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