[Sca-cooks] Meadshtufff
Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
Sun Sep 8 20:36:57 PDT 2002
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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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas stefan at texas.net
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