[Sca-cooks] 16th C non-alcoholic drinks?

[Emelyne Wyote]

I forgot to note that I accessed this on the Early English Books Online
database.  If you don't have access to it and want to see some of the leaves
from the book, I can download a PDF file and email it to you.

Emelyne

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From: sca-cooks-bounces+emelyne_wyote=sbcglobal.net at ansteorra.org
[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces+emelyne_wyote=sbcglobal.net at ansteorra.org] On
Behalf Of Emelyne Wyote
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 5:20 PM
To: 'Cooks within the SCA'
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] 16th C non-alcoholic drinks?

There are a few things from Thomas Elyot's 1547 Castel of Helth which might
work, although people MIGHT consider these to be more medicines than
beverages in some cases.  He does talk a lot about diet and the effects of
various foods on the humors, so maybe you can pass this off as a period
source for some foodstuffs.  


He mentions oximell, which is 1 part vinegar to 2 parts honey, and from what
I can tell boiled into 4 parts water:  

Oximell is, where to one parte of vyneger is put double to moche of hony,
foure times as much of wter, and that beynge boyled unto the thyrde parte,
and cleane skymened with a fether...


He also mentions making a peach syrup:

Of the iuyce of them [peaches] may be made a syrope, very holsome against
the distemperaunce of choler...


He also talks about orange juice mixed with sugar, but he mentions "eating"
it instead of "drinking" it, so I don't know if you could pass this off as
an orangeade or not, since he could be referring to the previous usage of
orange juice:

The iuyce of oranges, havynge a toste of breade put unto it, with a lyttell
powder of myntes, sugar, and a lyttell cynamonie, maketh a very good sawce
to provoke appetite.  The iuyce eaten with sugar in a hotte fever, is not to
be dyscommended. 


I don't know if this is anything like you are looking for, but I figured it
couldn't hurt.

Emelyne

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Behalf Of lilinah at earthlink.net
Sent: Saturday, April 22, 2006 3:02 PM
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Sca-cooks] 16th C non-alcoholic drinks?

I have offered to help provide refreshments for a 16th century salon 
that will be at our Kingdom Beltane.

I have few books on 16th century European food. Those i've gone 
through list very limited non-alcoholic beverages.

Can anyone recommend sources for 16th century non-alcoholic 
beverages? I'm not a brewer and won't be making ale or cider between 
now and then.

Thanks for any pointers to sources.
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita
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