[Sca-cooks] cordials

[Robin]

Michael Gunter wrote:

> It's interesting that I got into a discussion with a Laurel
> at the Roses tournament where I displayed a month
> or so ago.

[snip]

> She insisted that cordials were used as after dinner drinks
> in some eras to settle the stomach. I argued that I had
> never seen any evidence of such and it would go against
> Galen's Humoral Theory. 

Hard cheese was believed to "close" the stomach after meals. 

I don't have time to look it up, but I recall readiing that drinking 
(pretty much anything) after meals would interfere with digestion.

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Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
Robin Carroll-Mann *** rcmann4 at earthlink.net