[Sca-cooks] More Russian black bread....

[Jeff Gedney]

Hi Philip!
Speaking of birch could you ask Alexey about a reference I ran across
(researching the "Muscovy Company" in Elizabethan England) that then
Muscovites drank a "meade" ( usually meaning any general mildly alcoholic
drink ) made from Birch Sap?  That is all I have, but I want to recreate the
drink, and need more info. Also any other reference to birch (or maple) sap
used as a sweetener.


Brandu