[Sca-cooks] Viking recipes site

[Terry Decker]

But did anyone repeat Olaf the Oaf's experience with freeze distillation and 
live to tell the tale?  Absence of evidence in this case covers roughly 
three centuries and a number of locales with fairly decent documentation. 
While we can not be certain that someone in Scandinavia did not use freeze 
distillation, the fact that it doesn't appear to be traditional in Iceland, 
the Orkneys, the Shetlands or the Faroes, strongly suggests that the 
evidence is absent because freeze distillation was not used.

Bear


> 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