SC - Re: Kuskenole, a question

[LrdRas@aol.com]

>>-that the use of bottles designed to hold fermented drinks under 
pressure was a new idea at the time, possibly due to Digby himself.  If
that is right, then the fizzy small mead (Digby's "weak honey  drink")
that we make probably didn't exist in period, at least in  anything very
close to the form we make it.<<

Your Grace,

Couldn't a stoneware bottle, or even a very well made leather bottle,
hold up to the pressure of a 'lightly fizzy' drink?  You would want to
leave more room at the top of the bottle, perhaps.  The practice of
banding wooden casks with iron bands ought to make a pretty strong
container.  Don't know when that began, but the name 'Cooper' is a period
last name.

In addition, if the fizzy mead was made at home, stored for ripening in
an open vat, and then served to Digby's guests at his home, it could have
been made long before Digby was born.  

Regards,
Allison,     allilyn at juno.com


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