Saturday, March 2, 2019

Plague Water, Anyone? A Distillery Delves Into Medieval Mixology


Historians and craft liquor companies are collaborating to bring back recipes that began as medicines and ended up in punches and cocktails.

https://nyti.ms/2GCk4Gw

  


1 comment:

N. Bonica said...

Plague water is made from various amounts of different herbs fermented in alcohol. It was drank to cure ailments and sickness during the 17th century.

I found a recipe for plague water for an example of what plague water might have had in it:
"Take a pound of Rue, of Rosemary, Sage, Sorrel, Celandine, Mugwort, of the tops of red Brambles, of Pimpernel, Wild-draggons, Arimony, Balm, Angelica, of each a pound. Put these Compounds in a pot, fill it with White-wine above the herbs, so let it stand four days. Then still it for your use in a Limbeck."

http://www.godecookery.com/engrec/engrec33.html