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Renaissance Drink Recipes

Popular Renaissance Beverage Recipes

Renaissance drink recipes often called for wine, spices, fruits, and generous amounts of sugar or honey for sweetening, and people's taste in the Renaissance Era often demanded beverages to be very sweet indeed.

Since ancient times, people of every race and culture have enjoyed refreshing beverages and those living during the Renaissance Era were no exception. Below, you will find authentic recipes for popular drinks from that era. Try one of these historic drink recipes for your next Medieval Banquet, or Renaissance Faire.

If you have difficulty reading the Early-Modern-English style of writing, or you need to shed light on any outdated ingredient names and cooking terms used in these early Renaissance recipes, please refer to the Renaissance Dessert Recipes Glossary.

Renaissance Drink Recipe

This Renaissance drink recipe is taken from "The Queens Closet Opened: Incomparable Secrets in Phyfick, Chyrurgery, Preferving, Candying, and Cookery" by W. M., published by Nathaniel Brooks, London, at the Angel in Cornhill, in 1658.

It is generally believed that W. M. was a prominent manservant in the household of Queen Henrietta Maria and might once have been the queen's personal chef.

Dr. Kings way to make Mead
This Renaissance mead recipe was ascribed to Dr. King, believed to be a prominent physician to the royal household of King Charles I.

Take five quarts and a pint of Water, and warm it, then put one quart of Honey to every gallon of Liquor, one Lemon, and a quarter of an ounce of Nutmegs, it muft boil till the fcum rife black, that you will have it quickly ready to drink, fqueeze into it a lemon when you tun it. It muft be cold before you tun it up.

Renaissance Drink Recipes

These Renaissance / medieval drink recipes are taken from the second edition of "The Queen-like Clofet or Rich Cabinet" by Hannah Wolley, published by Richard Lowndes, London, in 1672.

To make Chaculato
This Renaissance hot chocolate recipe is one of the earliest of its type published.

Take half a Pint of Claret Wine, boil it a little, then fcrape fome Chaculato very fine and put into it, and the Yolks of two Eggs, ftir them well together over a flow Fire till it be thick, and fweeten it with Sugar according to your tafte.

To make good Almond Milk
This Renaissance almond milk recipe makes a delicious, warm beverage that was enjoyed by both the young and old alike.

Take Jordan Almonds blanched and beaten with Rofe water, then ftrain them often with fair water, wherein hath been boiled Violet Leaves and fliced Dates; when your Almonds are ftrained, take the Dates and put to it fome Mace, Sugar, and a little Salt, warm it a little, and fo drink it.

To make Limonado
History records that honey-sweetened lemonade was sold by licensed vendors on the streets of Paris as early as 1676. This historic Renaissance lemonade recipe was published just four years previously.

Take one Quart of Sack, half a Pint of Brandy, half a Pint of fair Water, the Juyce of two Limons, and fome of the Pill, fo brew them together with Sugar, and drink it.

Use these authentic Renaissance drink recipes to make your own hard and soft drinks similar to those consumed in the Medieval, Elizabethan, and Renaissance eras.

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