[Sca-cooks] Fw: [EKCooksGuild] wyne greke

[Stefan li Rous]

Back on March 8, Brighid ni Chiarain commented:
> My recollection is that "Greek wine" is a term used in English medieval
> cooking for a sweet wine.
>
> Okay, I just checked.  In the glossary to "Curye On Inglysch" it says that
> "wyne greke" was a term for a kind of sweet wine, that actually came from
> Italy, not Greece.  I'd be inclined to use something like a sweet sherry.

But would sherry be a good wine to use here? I thought sherry was a fortified
wine. Would it have been available and used for cooking when and where "Curye
On Inglysch" was written?
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