SC - Heralds & naming
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 31 17:33:20 PST 2000
In a message dated 3/31/00 7:31:36 AM Pacific Standard Time, troy at asan.com
writes:
> > Hippocras
> >
> > Goodman p. 299/28
> >
> > To make powdered hippocras, take a quarter of very fine cinnamon
selected
> by tasting it, and half a
> > quarter of fine flour of cinnamon, an ounce of selected string ginger,
> fine and white, and an ounce of
> > grain of Paradise, a sixth of nutmegs and galingale together, and bray
> them all together. And when you
> > would make your hippocras, take a good half ounce of this powder and two
> quarters of sugar and mix
> > them with a quart of wine, by Paris measure. And note that the powder
and
> the sugar mixed together is
> > the Duke's powder.
>
> Adamantius
Does anyone have a reference to Hippocras which includes Angelica (either
crystalized, fresh or powdered)? I know that Angelica was brought to
northern Europe by the Vikings, and would love to make some of this stuff for
Darkwell.
Balthazar of Blackmoor.
Man cannot live on bread alone... he must have beer to soak it in.
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