[Sca-cooks] Drinking scabwort/elecampane
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Tue Nov 5 20:28:22 PST 2013
It doesn't surprise me that medieval drinkers might sometimes have drunk
scabwort (elecampane); at various times, I'm sure they drank infusions of all
sorts of things. And Pliny said this one made people "merry". What's more
surprising is that in the dietetic I posted a few days ago, Leonard warns
against drinking it (and only it) right after warning against drinking beer
- suggesting that it was a fairly common drink.
Anyone ever come across people drinking this?
Jim Chevallier
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