SC - Re- Recipe for Fin

[Marisa Herzog]

> 
> I'm not arguing that watered wine was drunk in our time period, but I
> am curious as to how your quote backs up your statement.  I read it as
> "they decended to inspect the courtyard, the cellars, and the well."
> Is there more to the quote that's not here?  I'm sorry, I just have a 
> hard time believing that water was not drunk by the nobility at all,
> perhaps that misconception is the cause of my confusion?

> Conchobar 

There's a statement in a chronicle during the 100 Years War that the English
army was besieged in (Calais?) and supplies were running so low that the nobility
was complaining they were forced to drink plain water.

They drank water but they didn't like it.

Yers,

Gunthar

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