[Sca-cooks] Hard liquor in period recipes, was Adamantius pants?

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:16:52 -0500
  Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise 
<jenne at fiedlerfamily.net> wrote:

> Nope, you're not missing something. Hard liquor (as 
>opposed to beer and 
> wine) is a relatively late innovation, and was only 
>slowly losing its 
> medicinal reputation by the end of period.

i seem to recall reading that the irish were distilling 
whiskey in the 12th century.

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