SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #585

[Russell Gilman-Hunt]

Crystal of the Watermark wrote: (in part)


>I spent some time trying to document plain water as a beverage,
>something that would have been served at table. The most they thought
>about water was as something to dilute wine with. Adding water to wine
>was a common practice dating from Roman times, and was described in
many
>medieval books on manners and in Baccaccio's The Decameron, "And when
>they descended to inspect the huge, sunlit courtyard, the cellars
>stocked with excellent wines, and the well containing abundant supplies
>of fresh, ice-cold water, they praised [their lodgings] even more."

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?

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