SC - Cordials

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Constance de la Rose wrote:

> Suffice it for now to say that I disagree with 
> the assumption that cordials are not period and assert that they were period 
> and were used more than medicinally though I suspect that they were used less 
> than we often use them late at night in the campfire circles at camping 
> events. ;) 
> 
> Constance de la Rose  

Well, speaking for myself, I made no assumption other than to say I had
seen no great body of evidence to suggest they were widespread,
especially most of the ones used late at night around campfires at
camping events. I still haven't. As for the quote from Dame Aoife above,
I think perhaps she wasn't expecting to be taken literally.

The tone of the original question seemed to indicate that what was being
asked was whether the vast number of SCA-Peter-Heering-and-Chambourd
clones were in general use in period. If you have some evidence to
suggest that they were, hook me up when you can, if you please. I
confess most of my research into this has been in recipe sources, and
they show a lot of spiced wines, sweetened and un-, spiced meads and
ales, wines with added fruit, and various distillates of spiced wine or
other fermented spirits.

Adamantius
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