To a quart of red wine, add an ounce of cinnamon and half an ounce of ginger; a quarter of an ounce of grains of paradise and long pepper, and half a pound of sugar. Bruise all this, not too small, and strain the wine through a cloth bag. Geezus, half a pound of sugar? Sounds like an early recipe for coca-cola.
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#22To a quart of red wine, add an ounce of cinnamon and half an ounce of ginger; a quarter of an ounce of grains of paradise and long pepper, and half a pound of sugar. Bruise all this, not too small, and strain the wine through a cloth bag. Geezus, half a pound of sugar? Sounds like an early recipe for coca-cola.
Red wine and coke or dr pepper is pretty good. Especially to mitigate having opened the bottle yesterday.
The app was amazing. Type a few letters of some ingredients in the search bar and it filtered the list of drinks down to a subset, eg "ora bour". It even showed you what kind of glass to drink it in. Unfortunately Tmobile balked at having a 21+ app in their app store and it was never released to the public.
To this day I still haven't tried a Calimocho.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
That you’ll never find on google.
godecookery.com is the first result if I type "translation of the boke of gode cokery" into google. What were you hoping for? That it would be a top result for the query "good recipes"? That seems unreasonable.
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#24This website claims to have translated recipes from the Boke of Cokery: http://godecookery.com/goderec/goderec.htm
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Red wine and coke or dr pepper is pretty good. Especially to mitigate having opened the bottle yesterday.
A lifetime ago, before the iphone, a friend and I wrote a bartender guide for the Danger Hiptop (aka Tmobile Sidekick). I hand-curated and rewrote most of the drink catalog, and that's where I learned about the Calimocho. The app was amazing. Type a few letters of some ingredients in the search bar and it filtered the list of drinks down to a subset, eg "ora bour". It even showed you what kind of glass to drink it in…
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#26Max Miller has a series about making historical foods, and references this book regularly: https://www.youtube.com/c/TastingHistory
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#27To a quart of red wine, add an ounce of cinnamon and half an ounce of ginger; a quarter of an ounce of grains of paradise and long pepper, and half a pound of sugar. Bruise all this, not too small, and strain the wine through a cloth bag. Geezus, half a pound of sugar? Sounds like an early recipe for coca-cola.
Red wine and coke or dr pepper is pretty good. Especially to mitigate having opened the bottle yesterday.
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#28It's sad that it's virtually impossible to find medieval food like this. All "medieval" restaurants (even in Europe) I know of either serve modern food in old digs, or random barbecue as a sideshow to jousting knights and whatnot.
https://www.dengyldnesvane.dk/ (Falster, Denmark)
https://www.sjattetunnan.se/?lang=en (Stockholm, Sweden)
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#30Not trying to be difficult, but that font seems to have some historical implications we should rather not glorify.