Sorry for sending hither and yon, and for those of you who get multiples. Hope to see you there! The Shire of Altenberg Presents: Battle of the Inland Seas XI...
Hey, I set up the SCA_Brew web page several years ago. http://sca_brew.homestead.com/ Over the last few years, I have not been giving it the attention it ...
Nathi, We can migrate it over to my scabrewer.com or scabrewer.org domian. I am not using the scabrewer.org domain for anyhting so it is just defaulting over...
It would be nice to see it updated with a fresher list of homebrew suppliers (online retailers especially), an expansing bank of viewer submitted recipes,...
... are in season. :) As we speak. In addition to to being wonderful eaten by the handful....they make spectacular wine, mead and cordial. You'd better find...
This may be a silly question, but when is honey cheapest durring the year? Is there a season for honey production or should I just keep checking in at my local...
You'll probally find the best prices from your local bee keepers. Otherwise the next best price will be someplace you can buy in bulk, like Sam's Club, Costco...
You wouldn't believe of all the places I found organic, non-pasteurized honey. Cost-Co. Now I think it was local, so you might want to check with your Cost-Co...
Damion J Terrell
evil242@...
Jul 15, 2005 3:03 pm
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... http://www.switchboard.com has an entry for "Bee Keepers & Bee Removal Service", so that might be the easiest way to search your local area. Crystal of the...
Ok, now to see what their prices are and how often they harvest. :) With luck, I should have decent Sack within 2 months (I don't rush). :) Thanks! Erik...
... Due to all the rain in California this winter, Miller's Honey is selling sixty pound buckets of orange and wildflower honeys for a buck a pound. They do...
Greetings unto the Group, I am trying to do research so that I can document and enter a cordial into an A&S fair that Meridies is having in December. I have...
... As far as I am aware, there is essentially NO documentation of cordials-as-beverages anywhere in period - the closest you'll get is Hugh Plat, he's 1609 -...
Most SCA beverage-cordials of the fruity/sweet variety, use as their documentation a recipe referred to as "A cordial water of Sir Walter Raleigh." It's for a...
... Benedictine and Frangelico date back to the 16th and 17th centuries, respectively. John French's "The Art of Distillation," published in 1651, is a great...
J C Ronsen
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Jul 17, 2005 3:12 pm
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"Try searching "Making Cordials" on the net. I here are a couple of links I googled for you. http://www.leeners.com/index.html ...
... I haven't, but members of my household have. I can't abide the aftertaste of Splenda, so I've not sampled, but they tell me it tastes pretty good. ...
I will have to find where I found it, but part of the problem or finding early cordials is the fact that most of them were made with distilled spirits. There...
Here are some references on distilling. I give no guarantees of the validity of the information on these pages. After all it is the Internet, and anyone can...
Honey keep very well once it is 'harvert" and therefore producers seem in no rush to sell it. Or at least, I have never observed a season when the price was...
Aquavit, what the Swedes call their cordials is rarely made with sugar. And in period, sugar cost period equivalent of $5 a teaspoon and therefore not...
Perhaps I should have been more specific. :) I meant, "sweet cordials that don't call for buttloads of sucrose." Basically, I'm most interested in hearing...
Okay several things that I have found. #1. Sugar, especially in late period, was used quite frequently. "The Elixers of Nostradaumus" talk of using several...
Okay several things that I have found. #1. Sugar, especially in late period, was used quite frequently. "The Elixers of Nostradaumus" talk of using several...
How are potatoes not period. America was discovered in 1492 and therefore that's a 108 years of potatoes (+/- a couple of decades). Now for research and cited...
Damion J Terrell
evil242@...
Jul 18, 2005 3:15 pm
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... cook ... with it. ... I once tried out a recipe from a Welsh (I believe) cookbook for homemade wine. In addition to the fruit base (plums), it called for ...
A brewing competition, sponsored by the Atenveldt Brewer's Guild, will be held on Saturday, July 23, 2005, at Highland's War (http://www.highlandswar.org). An...
I was referring more to the fact that it wasn't Aqua Vitae because Aqua Vitae is referrenced many years before 1492. ... therefore ... to ... was a ... 1600. ...
Queens Delight yr1671 refers to "To make a Rasberry Wine" Is as follows "take a gallon of good Rhine wine, put into it as much rasberries vary ripe as will...
