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[Kallyr@aol.com]

Hi all from Anne-Marie

we are asked about period recipes for mulling cider, etc.

Get this...I have never, in all my culinary reconstruction research and
reading of primary sources, seen any recipe for serving wine or any other
beverage hot. Hot spiced wine is one of those things that we always just
KNEW, right? well, butter my muffin and call me a Celt, but I cant find any
primary documentation for it.

We got wines that you spice, but nothing about serving them hot.
We got citations on the spicing of beer, but again, nothing on serving them
hot.
We got citations on the serving of coddles, etc, but those are so late they
cant in any way be called medieval (Elizabethan, maybe, but not medieval)

I would love for someone to prove me wrong, as I love the stuff, so if you
know of a primary source medieval recipe which specifically states that you
are to serve it forthe all hot, or mentions cooking it right before
serving, or even involves cooking at all, please let me know!

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