[Sca-cooks] possets

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Clarea, from de Nola, is a spiced and sweetened wine drink that is made
with white wine.  Here's my translation:
SPICES FOR CLAREA
Three parts cinnamon, two parts cloves, one part ginger, all ground and
strained through a sieve, and for one azumbre of white wine, put an
ounce of spices with a pound of honey, well-mixed and strained through
your sleeve of good thick linen, and strained through it often enough that
the wine comes out clear.

Notes:
an "azumbre" is a Spanish measurement of volume equal to about 2 liters.
1 pound of honey = 1-1/2 cups
The spices are approximately: 1 TBS cinnamon, 2 tsp. cloves, 1 tsp.
ginger.  You may want to experiment and adjust quantities.




Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net