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

[Terry Decker]

What is the documentation for these statements?  I've chased a number of 
similar claims, but I have yet to find source material solid enough to stand 
academic scrutiny.

Bear


> Yeah, they were, but the distillation process wasn't widely known
> and it was difficult to produce.  Aqua Vitae, or Uisge Beatha as
> the Irish called it was produced in small quantities and used
> "medicinally."
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> Cadoc