[Sca-cooks] hydrosols

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> >Kefir Lime Leaves and Mint
> >Orange flower and Rosemary
> >Orange flower and Honey
> >Pineapple and Mint (especially when dropped into a Rum and Coke!!!)
> >Muskmelon and Cucumber
> >Thyme and Scallion
> I think only a few of these have any chance of being period. 

Pineapple and mint looks like the only one that probably couldn't have 
been made in period, and as distillers tended to distill anything they 
got their hands on, someone probably made all of them at one time or 
another.

I'll leave William to explain how it's done.

So what 
> period hydrosols were there? Rosewater and orange flower water? 
> Anything else? Perhaps mints?

Cinnamon. Nutmeg. Lavender. Rosemary Flower. 

The waters listed in Chapter III of Markham's English Housewife include:
Radish, sage, angelica, celadine, vine, eye-bright, rosemary, treacle 
(the medicine, not the sweetener, I think), cloves, saxifrage,
Cosmetic waters he lists include bean  flowers, strawberries, vine 
leaves, lily flower, 'dragons', etc.

Most of Markham's compound waters call for alcohol but some of them do 
not.

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