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

[Johnna Holloway]

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