SC - Re: Italian drinks?

[Jessica Tiffin]

At 02:26 PM 4/10/01 -0500, Vincente quoth thusly:
>De Nola has recipes for wine and water claries and for hippocras.  He was 
>writing for the Catalan court in Naples, and is a few years later than 
>Platina. Here's the raw material from de Nola:
<groovy recipes snipped>
>Hope this helps!
This does indeed, this is _exactly_ what I was looking for.  Many, many
grateful thanks.  Has anyone ever made any of the claries?  They look like
marvellous alternatives to the usual sekanjabin/hypocras thingummies.

JdH

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