SC - herbed wine/liqueur

[Christina van Tets]

Okay, I've checked the Abelard reference and the herbed alcohol reference 
_appears_ to be for wine:

'But if we abstain from meat, what a reproach it is to us if we eat 
everything else to excess, mingle the flavours of pepper and spices, and 
when we are drunk on neat wine, go on to cups of herb-flavoured liquor and 
flagons of spiced drink!'

'The preparation of wine mixed with herbs for medicinal purposes or even the 
drinking of neat wine is not to be forbidden, so long as the convent in 
general never takes these, but they are drunk separately by the sick.'  
(Abelard, Letters of Direction)

This sounds to me as though healthy people had been drinking some kind of 
herb liqueur, though others may interpret it differently.  Any 
thoughts/recipes?

FWIW, Abelard died in 1142.

Cairistiona
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