[Sca-cooks] Help please

[Johnna Holloway]

Rather doubt it as a combination prior to 1700. It doesn't turn up in  
the initial searches I did.
After those failed, I used EEBO-TCP and the combination doesn't turn  
up there either.

Rhubarb turns up in medical recipes in The Queens Closet Opened, 1659,  
and  The true preserver and restorer of health being a choice  
collection of select and experienced remedies from 1682. These are not  
recipes for meads but for cordial or purging waters.

Johnnae

On Jan 25, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Marjan English wrote:

>
> Greetings everyone,
>
> I recently made some rhubarb mead which turned out rather well.   
> Does anyone know if this plant was used in the past for this purpose?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Myrrim