reference: wm-1671
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- Clary Wine
Wine or ale with honey, spices and clary flavouring. Known since medieval times, by 1829 the poet Robert Southey could say; "Almost as obsolete as metheglin, hi...
- Cordial Water of Sir Walter Raleigh
Aqua vitæ (plain spirit, vodka) in which strawberries have steeped four or five days, sweetened (WM 1671).
- Gilly-flowers
General term for sharp-scented flowers used as spicing - cloves, clove-scented pink (Dianthus Caryophyllus), wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri) or the white stock ...
- Hippocras
A highly spiced, medicinal, wine. Commonplace from the 13th to 18th Centuries. The precursor of Tonic Wine. Compare with: Clary and Piment
- Prince Biscuits
Batter of flour, sugar, eggs, rosewater and sweet seeds (caraway, aniseed), baked in small buttered paste moulds (Plat 1609, WM 1671, etc.)
- Snail Water
Snails crushed in beer, with herbs, distilled, "for weak Children, and old People" (WM 1671, Family Guide 1747, Robert May 1660, etc).
- Stepony
A summer drink made from raisins and lemon. Known at least since Thomas Blount's 'Glossographia' of 1656; "Stipone, a kind of sweet compound liquor, drunk in so...