[Sca-cooks] Aloxa, a honey drink

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Aloxa is a certain kind of honey water which is made with hot spices; it
is
> drunk in summertime, because they say that it refreshes, and they are not
> very wrong about that, because although it is true that the spices and the
> honey heat it up, however, the much larger portion of water refreshes, and
> the spices cause the water to penetrate throughout the body, because they
> open the channels and the pores of the body, and thus coincidently and per
> accidens [Latin for "by accident"] they refresh, although by themselves
they
> cause heat.
>
> Francisco Nuñez de Oria, "Aviso de Sanidad" (Advice on Health),  Madrid,
> 1572

Is that all there is Brighid? No suggestions of specific spices or
proportions?

Like the thinking, though- another reason why hot, spicy foods are preferred
in warm countries.

Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

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