[Sca-cooks] Beverages, was Royal authenticity

[UlfR]

Nancy Kiel <nancy_kiel at hotmail.com> [2003.09.28] wrote:
> Unfortunately, there isn't anything non-alcoholic.  Water isn't safe to 
> drink, unless it's from a stream (non-well water) or processed in some way 
> (boiled).  Milk isn't safe to drink, or seems not to be considered as a 
> drink (except for Norwegian buttermilk?).  Fruit juices are too expensive to 

I would suspect that fresh milk (when in season!) might have been more
readilly available to most of 10th century Noregians than to continetal
urban Europeans a few hundred years later.

UlfR

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