Today, I’m taking a look at what people in Europe drank before the age of colonization with this recipe from the late 14th-century cookbook Le Menagier de Paris. I’m also talking a bit about the word “tisane” and what it meant historically.
Le Menagier de Paris (translation):
(I will add the French text from Project Gutenberg once that website is no longer down.)
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