SC - SCA cordials ......Rum?

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/26/99 6:06:04 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
renfrow at skylands.net writes:

<< 
 Rum is too late, but cordials are not.  Here's one from c. 1550 to 1625:
 
 # 281  A CORDIALL WATER - c. 1550 to 1625
 Take burrage & buglos flowers, as many as will [gap in MS] a still, & put
 thereto as much sack & clare[t] as will wet them well.  & to every pinte of
 [cordial] water, you must put 2 ounces of white sugar candie & one grayne
 of ambergreece, finely beaten.  ye sugar candy must be put into ye glass
 bottles & let ye water distill upon it very gently.
 (From Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery, ed. by Karen Hess.)
 
 There are some recipes out there.  Don't get discouraged. >>

I'm not, but AFAIK neither sack nor claret is a distilled spirit.  

Mordonna
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