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

[Radei Drchevich]

The Volume Ab Cit. was in the bibliography.  I will get the sources together 
and post them.

Yes, We Slavs must stick together.  Was on my forays into Mother Russia's 
History that led to these revalations.

Radei Drchevich

>From: Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
>Reply-To: jenne at fiedlerfamily.net,        Cooks within the SCA 
><sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Hard liquor in period recipes, was Adamantius 
>pants?
>Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 20:23:47 -0500
>
> > I have seen sources sighting a distillery in Ireland as early as the 6th
> > century AD.
>
>Any recollection of which sources? I know that the Encyclopedia
>Britannica says something about distilling in Britain... and suggests
>R.J. Forbes, A Short History of the Art of Distillation: From the
>Beginnings Up to the Death of Cellier Blumenthal (1970) as a source
>
> > Vodka was well established in the Russias as early as the 10th century
> > according to records of Genovese Traders.
>
>*puzzled* why were there Genovese Traders in Russia at that time?
>And where can we find these records-- these descriptions would be
>invaluable to those of us in the States studying period Slavic culture.
>
> > and I have seen several recipes from a Roman cookbook of the 2nd century 
>BC
> > that call for distilled spirits, although wine was much more common.
>
>Which cookbook, and which recipes?
>
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