SC - Re: Poppa's mustard- mighty morphin cookers(daa da da, da da) LONG

[Nick Sasso]

> The original recipe does not contain the word defrutum but contains the word
> "sapae" which when doing some morphological research (sounds more impressive
> than saying I'm looking in a dictionary ;), the word sapa(in lewis and short
> dictionary) defined as "must, new wine boiled thick". This does not convince
> me though that the original did intend defrutum  as Platina indicates it is
> evaporation and not boiling that reduces the liquid to make defrutum.


"New wine" likely would be wine that had not yet fermented long, ergo
cloder to grape juice than to modern wine.  It would be sweet and very
lightly alcoholic with a touch of yeast bite to it.  

niccolo