[Sca-cooks] Why no alcohol?

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 04:01 PM 2/7/03 EST, you wrote:
>--
>> Mead may or may not have hops, but it won't have barley mash or anything
>> like
>> that.  It's the honey that is providing the carbohydrates for fermentation.
>>  And
>> DO NOT go by "The 13th Warrior" for documentation, Muslims are not actually
>> allowed drink mead either.
>
>Goodness no. If I have remembered correctly, it was HG Caridoc that posted a
>recipe for mead from one of the Arabic cookbooks (the name doesn't come up).
>Oh well.
>
>Misha

AAAAHHH!! No, Misha! The recipe that Cariadoc has is NOT from one of the
Arabic cookbooks! It's from _The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby, Opened_,
usually known as the Digby. It's *English*, slightly OOP.

'Lainie
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