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Making Wine and Eating Gold – The History of the New World

More from La Historia del Mondo Nuovo di M. Girolamo Benzoni Milanese, Venetia, 1565 (an English translation published by the Hakluyt Society, 1857, and extracted below, is here in its entirety) Of those whom they caught alive especially the captains they used to tie the hands and feet throw them down on the ground and [...]

Ypocras

This from my lovely mother, culinary inspiration, and Ypocras devotee (who, as you can tell, is significantly more precise with her measurements than I am): Ypocras, Ipocras, or Hippocras, this spiced wine takes its name from the filtering device, a manicum hippocraticum, not because of its healthful properties. We recommend drinking it in abundance anyway [...]