[Sca-cooks] I Tried a Medieval Diet, and also watered wine

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Unfortunately, I don't think most people have thought the idea through at  
all. Rather, there seems to be a vague idea that since person hygiene wasn't 
 that great in the period, the whole environment was befouled. I know of 
exactly  one quote - from a foreign queen - suggesting that one should drink 
wine in  England rather than water; but there is no evidence the English 
themselves  shared her distrust of their water.
 
It's also true that because wine and beer got recorded in inventories,  
taxes, etc. and water didn't, some seem to have extrapolated from that that  
people drank lots more of the former. Which of course is a logical error of  
grandiose proportions.
 
Jim  Chevallier
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In a message dated 6/21/2016 6:09:11 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
gothwalk at gmail.com writes:

What do  people think was in medieval water to make it anything less  than
safe?