18 Oct Hippocras
A bounteous harvest is coming in and the season of feasting is upon us. Feasting means parties, and parties mean special foods and drinks, as much as the budget of the household would allow. A favorite postprandial tipple during most of the middle ages was a sweetened spiced wine called “hippocras”. This concoction was named for the healer Hippocrates, the Greek physician known as “the father of medicine”, and was deemed a great aid to quiet digestion....