[Sca-cooks] Malavosia-What is it?

[Terry Decker]

In Antiquity it was wine made from Malvasian grapes.  These days it is
Malmsey or Madeira, fortified dessert wines.  I was able to get an
unfortified Malvasian wine from California when I made Welser strawberry
tart, but I haven't seen any since.

Since distillation a growing business when the cookbook was written, it is
possible that the wine was fortified.

Bear



>I noticed quite a few refernces to Malaosia in the online translation of
>Sabrina welserin's Cookbook. Is this a kind of wine?
>
>Caitlin of Enniskillen