SC - period mead recipes

[Mary Morman]

I'll have to pull out my copy, but my memory is telling me that the mead
recipe in Le Menagier is almost exactly the same as the one published in
Kenelm Digby some centuries later as "Weak Honey Drink".

elaina

On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, david friedman wrote:

> At 7:18 PM -0700 3/2/00, Mary Morman wrote:
> >On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, david friedman wrote:
> >
> >  > And, on a slight tangent, ...  . What are your sources for period
> >  > mead recipes? I only know one usable one, plus one slightly out of
> >  > period source.
> >
> >Is that the one in Le Menagier?
> 
> 
> I was thinking of the one in a German source, with the odd timing 
> instructions--possibly Sabrina Welserin. Now that you mention it, I 
> have a vague memory that Menagier has a mead recipe, but it is called 
> something else, so I didn't think of it.
> 
> David/Cariadoc
> http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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