[Sca-cooks] cherry wine/cider

[johnna holloway]

The Tudor-Jacobean "A Booke of Sweetmeats" which is included
as part of Martha Washington's Booke of Cookerie has a recipe
for "To Make Cherry Wine" on pages 378-379. That would date
cherry wine prior to Digby.

Johnnae llyn Lewis Johnna Holloway

grizly at mindspring.com wrote:
> precisely.  Could be two months old, could be 400 years old.  Cannot assume either way.
> niccolo
> sca-cooks at ansteorra.org wrote:
> > Digby (1669) has a couple of cherry wine recipes.  I can post theCountess of Newport's Cherry wine in about 8hrs time (when I get home
> from work).  It was fermented cherry juice with a sugar cube dropped
> into each bottle and the corks wired down.
> Drakey...who brews better than he cooks...
> ps.  Before anyone mentions it...  Yes I know Digby is post-period but
> the recipes were printed in 1669 after his death and who knows how old
> some of the recipes he collected are...