[Sca-cooks] Re: Absinthe and herbed liqueurs and cordials

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Chris Stanifer:
>--- Christiane <christianetrue at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>>  So, that brings to mind a question I have; Absinthe is 19th century,
>
>
>No, Absinthe is much, much older than 19th century.  Apicius has a 
>recipe for it in one of his
>volumes (or 'their' volumes).

Eeeeehhhhhhhh, maybe. I believe Flower and Rosenbaum translate this 
as vermouth, which make sense when you consider that both vermouth 
and absinthe once contained wormwood, and it's vermouth, not 
absinthe, that is made from wine (i.e. not distilled), and "vermouth" 
appears to be a distortion of a Germanic term for wormwood.

Adamantius
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