[Sca-cooks] Herbal Cordials, was rose vinegar period recipe

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Etain wrote:
>-=grin=- Ever make herbal cordials?  Some infusions take more time than
>others.  I suspect that it is the delicate nature of the rose oil that
>requires the amount and time.  Something strongly flavored...as a mint, for
>example, infuse rather quickly.

Care to share some recipes?

First, i'm ambivalent about cordials from an intellectual point of
view, since for the most part, they aren't "period" except a few used
as medicine (and certainly not fruit and/or chocolate cordials), i
hesitate to make them.

Second, i'm really not much of a drinker. A couple sips of Guinness
and i'm full. A few sips of wine and i've had enough. Occasionally on
New Year's Eve (and certainly not every year), i have 3 mixed drinks
- heck, i'd rather be eating caviar (yum, yum, yum).

Third, seeing too many drunken parties at SCA events (as i repeat,
our events are nearly all camp outs), well, i hate to contribute, not
that i hang out with heavy drinkers.

None the less, i still have this repressed urge to make cordials,
especially if they are peri-oid, and i suspect an herbal cordial
would be closer to a period cordial than a chocolate-cherry cordial.
Don't get me wrong, i don't think people "shouldn't" make such things
- i've sipped a number of fruit and/or chocolate cordials, i just
have less of an urge to make those sorts.

We've discussed this before, so i can search my files (and the
Florilegium) for previous info, but, well, i don't think i have any
of Etain's recipes...

hint, hint...

Anahita