SC - Is drinking water "period"

[Par Leijonhufvud]

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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Par Leijonhufvud                                      parlei at algonet.se
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