[Sca-cooks] barley water
Johnna Holloway
johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Tue Nov 27 04:02:19 PST 2007
It turns in the dietaries for all sorts of reasons, including this:
The Seconde Part of the Secretes of Master Alexis of Piemont
[London, 1560]
To make wemens milke encrease.
TAke Fenell seede, and seeth it in barleywater, and giue the woman
drinke of it, and her milke shall encrease abondantly.
It's also a fever drink.
Johnnae
Heleen Greenwald wrote:
> Thanks for the good explanation Master A! Can you explain to me
> though, why people would want to drink "...basically water boiled
> with barley until it has taken on a starchy, slightly mucilaginous
> viscosity..." sounds.... uhm, like something that I have to drink as
> a prep before a certain test that I have to take every year. <trying
> to be delicate here.>
>
> I've never tasted actual barley water myself, but I have seen/heard
> it referred to in UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS as a drink for young women in
> lieu of wine/fortified wine.
>
> Phillipa
>
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