SC - Allergies in general

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At 8:14 PM -0800 3/2/00, Laura C. Minnick wrote:

>Did they REGULARLY drink hot drinks? How do we know?

1. Do we know whether hippocras was served hot? It's how we usually 
serve it, but I don't think I have any evidence that it is how they 
served it.

2. The Andalusian cookbook has a whole chapter of drinks at the 
end--typically flavored syrups (sekanjabin is the best known of 
them). It explicitly says that some of them are supposed to be served 
hot. On the other hand, the chapter also contains a lot of medicinal 
comments, so it isn't clear whether they are thought of mainly as 
drinks or mainly as medicine.

3. My vague memory is that some of the beer based drinks were served 
hot. Braggot? Lambs wool?

David/Cariadoc
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