[Sca-cooks] Lemonade in medieval Egypt

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Johnna Holloway wrote:
>I have turned up a juice quotes but the printed recipe
>appears to have just appeared in La Varenne which is 1650's.
>There's this mention for instance--
>
>Many men putte ?erto in somer ?e Iuse of lymons or of orenges.
>  [Many men put thereto in summer the juice of lemons or of oranges.]
>
>Chauliac 2 (Paris angl. 25 156a/b) c1425

Thanks... what book/manuscript is this from? is Chauliac the author 
or the place the manuscript was found or stored?

For the 16th C. salon (for which i asked for non-alcoholic recipes), 
i ended up using LaVarenne's recipes, making lemon syrup with a dot 
of jasmine essence (artificial flavoring from the Thai market - i 
looked for jasmine flowers, but could only find them in tea) and 
Seville orange syrup with a generous splash of orange flower water. 
Inspired by, but not exactly following, La Varenne, i made peach 
syrup with a bit of rose water.

There wasn't a speck of lemon syrup left (so i made 2 quarts for the 
dayboard just past), and about 2/3 or 3/4 of the orange was used (and 
the remainder finished off at the dayboard).

The peach was less popular, since without having its flavor augmented 
by modern "natural flavors", it didn't have intensely "peachy" flavor 
of modern peach beverages.

Since we have an active contingent of 16th c. personae here, i keep 
hoping to find some non-alcoholic beverage recipes.
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita

who now has naturally flavored jasmine syrup for next time...