SC - Small Feasts-'unpl
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Tue Oct 21 19:22:40 PDT 1997
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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