SC - period mead recipes

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Mary Morman wrote:
> 
> 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".

I recall Le Menagier having a recipe for bochet, basically a metheglin,
and there are a few recipes in the fourteenth-fifteenth century English
sources. And in spite of the silly questions about "the aforeseyd
pomys", they are eminently usable when you know what pomys is.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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