SC - Is drinking water "period"
Par Leijonhufvud
parlei at algonet.se
Sat Apr 15 11:07:03 PDT 2000
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Robin Carroll-Mann wrote:
> is administered cold, sometimes boiled with herbs. I cannot tell from
> this if people of the time voluntarily drank water as a beverage. Medical
> and nutritional texts generally reflect what people *should* be doing, but
> not necessarily what they *are* doing.
In Ann Hagens "Anglo-Saxon Food; Processing and Consumption" she
writes "Otherwise wine (for the senior members of society), ale, mead,
cider/fruit wines, or water were drunk." (p 74).
/UlfR
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