[Sca-cooks] Scottish cuisine and wine

emilio szabo emilio_szabo at yahoo.it
Fri Nov 28 10:14:53 PST 2008



> > Do we have any idea how common it was to drink wine in  Scotland?
>
>
> Very.  Scotland had strong ties with France for several centuries and 
> imported tremendous amounts of wine.

If you look for "wyne" in the online Dictionary of the Scots language with the option "full entry" and "DOST and DOST Adds", you get a lot of quotations like the ones in the two links below:


http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?plen=18230&startset=81297756&query=Wyn&fhit=wyne&dregion=entry&dtext=dost#fhit

http://www.dsl.ac.uk/getent4.php?query=wyne&sset=1&fset=20&printset=20&searchtype=full&dregion=entry&dtext=dboth



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