[Sca-cooks] Any references to peaches being used in period brewing?

[Stefan li Rous]

Thanks. I've forwarded this on.

I'll also be adding this to the fruit-wines-msg file that I do have in the Florilegium.

What a variety of possibilities. Not sure how you get enough liquid out of "carnations, cowslips, scurvy grass, mint" to create a wine. Maybe these just flavor other juices like grapes.  Kind of like the "meads" I've seen that are really just apple flavored grape wine. :-(

I also thought "magazines", i.e.: soft covered, thin, publications were way post period, probably even 1800s. So is my definition of "magazine" wrong or has it changed over the years?

"More pleasant and agreeable to the English constitution than those of France." Ooh. Culinary chauvinism goes both directions. :-)

"To which is added, the foundation of the art of distillation: or the true and genuine way of making malt into low-wines, proof-spirits, and brandy-wines, compliant to the late act of Parliament concerning distillation." Perhaps a bit late in time, but this late act of Parliament might be worth looking up for those interested in period distilling.

Stefan

On Apr 21, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:

> The Britannian magazine: or, A new art of making above twenty sorts of English wines viz, of apples, pears, peaches, cherries, plums, sloes, damasins, quinces, figgs, goosberries, mulberries, currens, blackberries, elderberries, roses, carnations, cowslips, scurvy-grass, mint, and balm, &c. More pleasant and agreeable to the English constitution than those of France. With the way of making brandy and other spirits: as likewise how to make artificial clarets, rhenish, &c. The second edition. To which is added, the foundation of the art of distillation: or the true and genuine way of making malt into low-wines, proof-spirits, and brandy-wines, compliant to the late act of Parliament concerning distillation. By W.Y. M.D.
> by W. [William] Y-Worth, W.  London : printed by W. Onely, for T. Salusbury, at the King's Arms, in Fleet-street, 1694.
> 
> By title anyway, this might be of interest. I know it's late but at least it is before 1700.
> 
> Johnnae

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