[Sca-cooks] Help please

[Johnna Holloway]

The other option of course would be if you read through the 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, you'll see what I mean.

Johnnae

On Jan 25, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Johnna wrote:

> Yes, but-- they don't use rhubarb.
> http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16441
> Search it and you'll find that rhubarb doesn't appear in Digby.
>
> Johnnae
>
> On Jan 25, 2011, at 8:29 PM, mich0067 at flinders.edu.au wrote:
>
>> Though weren't spiced meads (metheglins) used medicinally as well?   
>> Or was that
>> much earlier? It's been a while but I have a feeling Digby's might  
>> have something on medicinal
>> meads.