[Sca-cooks] Re: Absinthe and herbed liqueurs and cordials
Chris Stanifer
jugglethis at yahoo.com
Sat Nov 20 17:43:10 PST 2004
--- "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
> >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.
That's very possible. I'll peek into it a bit more.
William de Grandfort
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