SC - krupnik, calvados

[Crystal A. Isaac]

Umm, sorry to nag, but can you point me towards a period source for
Norman cider or cider making techniques? Did they add anything to the
cider or just ferment fruit/juice?

thanks,
Crystal of the Westermark

Charles McCathieNevile (Charles Ragnar) wrote:
> 
> Norman cider was famous in the middle ages. I think it had two uses - it
> made Normans want to go conquer the rest of the world, and it wa regarded
> by said rest of the world as a good cleaning agent - No More Scrubbing!!
> (It was probably a lethal anti-septic too, but I guess they never figured
> that out). I wonder if it was ice-distilled - I believe that practice was
> known in the North at the time.
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