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

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

this is very cool!!!!!
does anyone know if there's a printed edition or microfilm edition out there for those of us who dont 
have access to the EEBO?

--Anne-Marie, who is squints at the text really really hard could see root beer. maybe. kinda. sorta.


On Mon May  1 12:17 , Johnna Holloway  sent:

>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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