[Sca-cooks] Tea Information

[Johnna Holloway]

You could take a look at the Florilegium article:
Orng-Lmn-drks-art (10K)  4/11/07    "Orange and Lemon Drinks of Summer"
                                       by THL Johnnae llyn Lewis, CE.

Johnnae

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> Sharbats were known in Europe by at least the mid-17th century. There are recipes in la Varenne for fruit and flower syrups to be drunk mixed with water.
> I haven't looked for them yet in 16th c. cookbooks, but given that gigantic outburst of SUGAR in Elizabethan England, sharbats by one name or another may have been known.
> Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
>