[Sca-cooks] Why no alcohol?

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

> >--
> >> 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


Could Misha be referring to the scathing review by HG of the article that
was published in TI that purports to describe an alcoholic beverage but
sounds more like a medicinal syrup? *That* recipe is from the Arabic
corpus.

Margaret