Ale was the staple drink of the medieval and Tudor periods, but how was it made?
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[Read More...]Ale was the staple drink of the medieval and Tudor periods, but how was it made?
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[Read More...]What kinds of drinks would the Tudors have enjoyed over the Twelve Days of Christmas?
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[Read More...]In today’s edition of Teasel’s Tudor Trivia, Teasel and I talk about what kinds of drinks the Tudors would have enjoyed over the Twelve Days of Christmas: syllabub, mulled wine, buttered beere, Lambswool and hippocras.
[Read More...]In this week’s Claire Chats video talk, I talk about what Tudor people actually drank, in a time when water was not safe to drink.
[Read More...]I’m always coming across mentions of hippocras when I’m reading primary source accounts of banquets, coronations and christenings. It was something that was served at the end of a banquet with wafers and “spice plates”. I love trying out things I read about so I looked in my books for a contemporary recipe and a modernised version. Here is the result:
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