Spiced Wine Beverages

A short annotated bibliography of books and other materials useful for historical brewing. Some of these materials range up into the 1800s.

15th Century wine thickened with eggs.

A frothy wine or ale-based drink.

Original recipe from Forme of Cury.

14th century wine mulled with honey and spices.

Clarrey is a wine sweetened with honey and seasoned with a variety of spices. This recipe is from late 14th century England.

Transcriptions and translations of two recipes from ''Le Ménagier de Paris''; includes a 15th century illustration of a hippocras-sleeve (or sack) in use.

Hypocras (also spelled "hyppocras") is at the very least a Medieval drink, but more probably, as the name suggests, it dates back in time to pre-Christian or first millennium Greece. I have found recipes for it in English dating back to the reign of Edward III (1327-1377). In more recent times in Colonial America, an almost identical drink was made and called "mulled wine."

On alcoholic beverages in the Middle Ages.

14th Century wine mulled with honey and spices.

Recipes from The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Kenelme Digbie Kt Opened: Whereby is Discovered Several ways for making of Metheglin, Sider, Cherry-Wine, &c. together with Excellent Directions for Cookery: As also for Preserving, Conserving, Candying, &c. First edition, London, 1669.

Recipes for mulsam, vin blanc, conditum paradoxum, and amygdala et malum.

Period and SCA usage. Recipes.

The full text published on Project Gutenberg.

Recipes and documentation on wines and a recipe for a clarrey (spiced white wine).

15th century Italian eggnog.