[Sca-cooks] Meadshtufff

[Stefan li Rous]

Avraham commented:
>>     If you are using fruit juice, you ARE making a cider.  MEAD is made
>> with honey, not fruit juice.
>
> Of course, if you're using honey AND fruit juice, then you're making cyser
> (apple), perry (pear), pyment (grape) or melomel (any other fruit).

Yes, I was going to comment on the mix probably being a melomel
rather than a cider.
However, I'm not sure that perry uses honey. I thought it was simply
pear juice fermented similarly to the way apples are fermented to
create cider.

There is this file in the BEVERAGES section of the Florilegium.
perry-msg         (10K) 11/30/01    A cider made with pear juice.
Unfortunately, I find no definition in there, much less a period
one, that would say that this was only a pear juice base beverage
or whether a pear and honey based one.

This book title though:

> Davies, Stuart. "'Vinetum Britannicum': Cider and Perry in
> the Seventeenth Century". Liquid Nourishment. Series: Food and

> Society, edited by C. Anne Wilson.[papers from the 5th Leeds

> Symposium, 1990]

> Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993. pages 79-105.

would seem to imply that Perry is more similar to a cider
than a mead.
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