[Sca-cooks] Viking recipes site

[Daniel And elizabeth phelps]

Hmmm... absence of proof is not proof of absence.  

That being said it would be nice to find a line or two in the sagas recounting how Olaf the Oaf got blottoed on some frozen dregs, went outside to whizz, passed out on the plank, froze to death and how utterly hilarious he looked sitting there with his trousers down around his ankles when they found him.  

Daniel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at att.net>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 10:19:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Viking recipes site

This is a possibility, but there is no evidence of fractional 
crystallization being used by Europeans before the early modern period.  If 
the Vikings did freeze distillation, why doesn't it show up elsewhere?  I'm 
sure the people in the Orkneys would have made great use of the technique. 
The technique does show up in some Chinese texts from around the 7th 
Century, so there is a possibility.

Bear


> Actually there is an alternative available to the Vikings that gets past 
> the distillation problem, let you hard cider freeze, drain off what 
> doesn't and repeat the process a sufficient number of times until what 
> results will give you a suitable post quaffing hangover?
>
> Daniel

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