[Sca-cooks] barley water

[Terry Decker]

Yes.  According to Thomas Gloning, it is about barley, barley water, ptisana 
and the like in old medical texts.  The citation information is:  Ernst 
Darmstaedter: Ptisana. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntnis der antiken Diaetetik. In: 
Archeion 15 (1933) 181-201.

Bear

> A while ago I was searching for material on tisane / ptisana. Among other 
> things I found this old German article:
>
> http://www.uni-giessen.de/gloning/at/darmstaedter_1933_ptisana.pdf
>
> As far as I can see, this is about barley water.
>
> Emilio