[Sca-cooks] Magazine was Re: Any references to peaches being used inperiod brewing?

[Terry Decker]

Presumably, the word derives from the Arabic "makhzin" (plural makhazin, 
which generally the pronunciation we use) through Old Occitan into Middle 
French and then into English.  Given the dates of those languages, the term 
was brought to Europe during the Islamic Expansion and entered French via 
Provence and Gascony.  The earliest known usage in English is from 1583, 
which suggests it arrived with the Huguenots from France.  The original 
Arabic meaning is storehouse.

Bear

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Thank you. This makes sense. I had been wondering how we got from gunpowder 
magazine to a printed booklet. I was also wondering if there were other 
copies of this "The Britannian" and whether we were missing other goodies in 
those. Or why only one of many issues was fit for republication. The answer 
is apparently that this was a single issue not a serial publication.

A bit out of our period, and we know that some drinks were coming and going 
out of fashion, like syllabubs, but perhaps still useful it getting an idea 
of how some drinks were make in late period.

The whole discussion on peach brews does highlight again though, that just 
because something was popular in one time period, it might not have been 
known a hundred years prior. I'm still a bit mystified on why peaches don't 
show up. It may simply be that they were being brewed with in eastern Europe 
but not in the west, in late period because the peach wasn't common there. 
Yet.

Stefan