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might find some similar recipes redacted in the vegetables-msg file in
the Florilegium.

> Mawmenee - what is "greek wine"?
>
> Mawmenee - Take a pottel of wyne greke, and ii ponde of sugar take and
> clarifye the sugar with a qntite of wyne and drawe it thurgh a strynor into a
> pot of erthe take flour of Canell and medle with su of the wyne and cast to
> gydre. take pyne with Dat and frye hem a litell in grece or in oyle and cast
> hem to gydre. take clowes and flour of canel hool and cast thereto. take
> powder gynger canel clow colo it with sandres a lytel yf hit be nede cast
> salt thereto and let it seeth warly with a slowe fyre and not to thyk, take
> brawn of Capons Ysteyfed or of Fesant tefyed small and cast thereto.

The Greek wines were known to have had resin added to them. I think you
can find some commentary on this in this file in the Florilegium:
wine-msg         (129K)  2/ 5/01    Medieval wines.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/BEVERAGES/wine-msg.html
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