[Sca-cooks] Ham soaked in hypocras

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

For breakfast, no less:

Tu peulx bien  donc au matin delîeuner 
D'un bon iambon d'eftrempé d'hypocras,  
Accompaigné de quelque chappon gras 
D'une perdrix, beccasse, caille, ou  grive

You can well then breakfast in the morning
On a good ham soaked  in hypocras
Accompanied by some fat capon
By a partridge, snipe, quail or  thrush.

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1232385/f12.image.r=hypocras

This  seems to be a satirical poem, so it's hard to know if the luxury is 
being  exaggerated or if people actually did use hypocras in this  way.


jC

Jim Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

FRENCH BREAD  HISTORY: Seventeenth century  bread
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2016/02/french-food-history-seventeenth-century
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