SC - Knowne World Cook's Party and Pot Luck at Estrella War

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There is !buckets! of documentation for putting expensive spices into brandy
or wine. Please check your local library for a really cool book by Arnald of
Villanova* who has extensive recipes of flavored brandy or wine for taste
and medicinal purposes. Spices in wine was a conspicious-consumption thing,
to the point where (I've been told by a scholar I trust) there's 16th
century German law about how much flavored brandy you can serve to your
guests.

Hess's MWBoC** is a cool source and I've taken several beverages from it,
but there's no fruit-in-hard-alcohol recipes in it.


Thanks,
Crystal of the Westermark

*Arnald of Villanova, (1235-1311). _The Earliest Printed Book on Wine_.
translated from the German edition by Sigerist, Henry E. Published by
Schuman’s New York 1943. There were only a few copies (50, I thnk) of this
volume published. There's one at The University of Califorina at Berekely,
in with the ordinary collection. If anybody can find a translation from the
orginal Latin, I'd love to hear about it.

**Hess, Karen. Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats.
Published by Columbia University Press. NY 1995. ISBN 0-231-04931-5 (pbk.)

- -----Original Message-----
From: owner-sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
[mailto:owner-sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG]On Behalf Of Daniel Phelps
Sent: Friday, January 04, 1980 6:34 AM
To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
Subject: Re: SC - Christmas Dinner and Gifts/Fig Brandy


Was written:


>I have checked out _Elinor Fettiplace's Receipt Book_, and almost had heart
>failure until I read the text extra carefully and discovered the
>cherries-in-brandy recipe was a 18th century addition. I like Fettiplace,
>but it's a source you have to be careful with.


Mia culpa.  On a different note  I seem to remember reading a
autobiographical account of one of the Catholic martyrs who escaped the
Tower in Elizabeth's reign.  In that account he wrote of being given a
restorative drink which was flavored as in cordial upon his escape.  I don't
recall if he said what it was flavored with.  I do recall reading that a
sealed flask of flavored alcohol was recovered from the Vasa.   The vessel
is only slightly post period.  The author of the article, in Scientific
American if memory serves me correctly, said that, for research purposes, he
got to taste it.  It was anise flavored like arak.  While not fruit flavored
it is in a similar product.  I will quest for other examples if I can find
them.  Have you checked Martha Washington's Book of Cookery?  Ms. Hess was
pretty careful in her research notes as to what came from when, perhaps
there is something there.  I will look when I find my copy.
>
>Daniel Raoul le Vascon de Navarre' called many things by many people but by
>the English, Leadenpenny.

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