SC - Lenten feasts (was: list newbie/Seasonal food)

[david friedman]

Lady Jehanne de Huguenin asked:
> Help!  I have a late-period Italian feast to cook in June, and the only
> Italian sources I have are Platina and Santich's Original Mediterranean
> Cuisine.  This is not a problem for food, but I can't find anything to
> suggest what would have been drunk with feasts, except for wine; Santich
> mentions hypocras drunk with the last course, but gives no documentation
> for it.  Does anyone have an recipe for an Italian version of hypocras?
> any mention of cordials (eg lemon cordial)?  Any English translations of
> Italian sources on the web?

You might check this file in the BEVERAGES section of the Florilegium:
Clarea-d-Agua-art (12K)  1/ 7/01    "Period drinks - Spiced Wines and
Sweet 
                                       Waters" by Vicente Coenca.
spiced-wine-msg   (19K)  1/23/01    Spiced wines. Hippocras. Recipes.
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THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****