SC - Water to wine

[Nick Sasso]

Diseases and standing water make common bedfellows, even in modern 
times.  The avoidance of plain water is arguable (not strongly) from 
this standpoint.  No know pathogens can survive in beer even at weak 3%.  
Watered wine would approximate this alcohol content at about three parts 
water and 1 part wine.  No point here, just thinking out lound to the 
group.

niccolo

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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 12:12:25 -0800
From: "Crystal A. Isaac" <crystal at pdr-is.com>
To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
Subject: Re: SC - Water to wine
Reply-To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG

Hello Cochobar,

I meant to use the Decameron quote as showing how far you have to dig to
find any documentation for well-born non-penitents drinking water. In
the context of the story, I had read it as they were glad to find a
clean source of water and wine. I suppose they might have drunk plain
water later in the Decameron, but if they did it wasn't mentioned,
although there are numerous other refrences to drinking wine.

Water, like yogurt and some other "obvious" food/drinks, is one of the
things we know they must have done, but have no good proof of.

Crystal

Michael F. Gunter (Gunthar) wrote:
> 
> > Conchobar ( Jambe de Leon, AoA, WOAW) previously wrote:>
> > 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.
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