[Sca-cooks] Sour syrup?

[Laura C. Minnick]

On 11/15/2011 10:20 AM, Johnna Holloway wrote:
> Tony Hunt in volume one of Anglo-Norman medicine: Roger Frugard's 
> "Chirurgia"
> lists it as "sirop aceptous, syrop acetous 13,21 decoction of honey 
> and vinegar [
> siropus acetosus]."
>
> The version of the Tacuinum Sanitatis titled The four seasons of the 
> House of Cerruti provides a recipe for "SYRUP OF VINEGAR Siropus 
> acetosus." See page 61. See also Medical illustrations in medieval 
> manuscripts for another translation.
>
> Johnnae
>

Is there any chance it could involve cherries? Just asking because 
there's the acerola cherry- but I don't know if it was called that 
before or after Sanitatis or if it is western European even. I do know 
it is high in vitamin C and could see it being used as medicine.

Liutgard


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