[Sca-cooks] 16th C non-alcoholic drinks?
Johnna Holloway
johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Mon May 1 11:17:22 PDT 2006
There were various things posted about drinking water.
I finally had the time and checked EEBO fulltext--
Maison rustique, or The countrey farme by
Estienne, Charles, 1504-ca. 1564.Liébault, Jean, 1535-1596.Surflet,
Richard, fl. 1600-1616,Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637.
London: Printed by Adam Islip for Iohn Bill, 1616.
First published in 1600
It states:
The common drinke of all liuing creatures is water.
OLd and ancient Histories doe sufficiently testifie, that water was the
first drinke which men vsed generally throughout the world, and
wherewith they con|tented themselues a long time, to vse it onely for
the quenching of their thirst: but afterward, vvhen voluptuousnesse
seized vpon mens appetite, they inuented and set before them diuers
sorts of drinkes. Wherefore hauing reiected water as a tastlesse and
vnsauourie thing, they haue in place thereof (in all such Coasts and
Countries as where the heat of the Sunne might bring forth and lead
along the grape vnto his full ripenesse) chosen Wine for the most
excellent and delightsome drinke of all o|thers:,,,,
Whereupon, some in stead of vvater haue taken vp the vse of Wine, and
others of Beere and Ale: some of Cyder and Perrie, and others, of all
sorts: some of honied vvater, or vvater sweetened vvith sugar: and
others, of other drinkes pressed and strained out from fruits, or the
decoctions of rootes.
Johnnae
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