[Sca-cooks] beer, wine, whiskey, scotch in food

[Micheal]

 I am sorry but this was told to me.
 Depending upon which side of the water your on . How do you make a good 
Irish whiskey?
 Answer Well first you drink a good scotch.
 I just repeat them not make em up.
 Da

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin G. Diehl" <mdiehl at nac.net>
To: "Bill Fisher" <liamfisher at gmail.com>; "Cooks within the SCA" 
<sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 25, 2004 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] beer, wine, whiskey, scotch in food


> Bill Fisher wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:21:37 -0600, Stefan li Rous
>> <stefanlirous at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>> > Cadoc commented:
>
> [snip]
>
>> From some reading on it Uisge Beatha, the predecessor to
>> modern Irish Whiskey and Scotch, was around for centuries,
>> it has today.  Also. from the level of skill it took to
>> create it, it seems to have been used medicinally.
>
> That is not surprising since 'Uisge Beatha' means 'Water of
> Life' -- at least that's what I was told.
>
>> (taken from http://www.celtic-whisky.com/histrya.htm )
>> In his "Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland"
>> published in 1577, Raphael Holinshed describes as
>> follows the incomparable virtues of Uisge Beatha :
>>
>> "Being moderately taken,
>> it slows the age,
>> it cuts phlegm,
>> it lightens the mind,
>> it quickens the spirit,
>> it cures the dropsy,
>> it heals the strangulation,
>> it pounces the stone,
>> its repels gravel,
>> it pulls away ventositie,
>> it keeps and preserves the head from whirling,
>> the eyes from dazzling,
>> the tongue from lisping,
>> the mouth from snuffling,
>> the teeth from chattering,
>> the throat from rattling,
>> the weasan from stiffing,
>> the stomach from womblying,
>> the heart from swelling,
>> the belly from wincing,
>> the guts from rumbling,
>> the hands from shivering,
>> the sinews from shrinking,
>> the veins from crumpling,
>> the bones from aching,
>> the marrow from soaking,
>> and truly it is a sovereign liquor
>> if it be orderly taken."
>>
>> A remedy definitely miraculous and most indispensable !
>>
>> Cadoc
>> --
>
> Thanks ... too bad it doesn't say "Improves memory."
>
> Vincenzo
>
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