[Sca-cooks] Festival of the Rose: Menu

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> I still haven't made up my mind.  I hate secunjebin
> and I am told that the Queen only drinks diet sodas or
> coffee.  Not exactly period, although I am debating
> about buying ginger beer and root beer, which are
> marginal and comes in diet forms for her.  Otherwise,
> I probably will have apple juice and water available
> for the rest.  Any other suggestions?

Unsweetened herb tea would be a lot more period.
Commercial ginger beer and root beer taste very little like the homemade
versions of these drinks from the 19th and 20th centuries. Can anyone
comment on the small beer made with ginger that's in the 17th century
brewing text, as compared to either Canada Dry type ginger ale or real if
commercial ginger ber?

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
"Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."