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Ingredients
- 4 ounce Stick cinnamon
- 2 ounce Powdered cinnamon One sixth (probably of a lb.-2 2/3 ounces) of nutmegs and galingale together
- 1 ounce Ginger
- 1 ounce Grains of paradise
Directions
- Meanwhile, I'll post this recipe for a kind of spiced wine they drank in the Middle Ages. This is another one of those medieval recipes first followed by modern instructions. I have tried this with red and white wine.
- I like it with a good deep burgandy best, but it is also good with a nice sweet white zin. I think it's all about what kind of wine you like. I skip the sugar (maybe which's why I like it with sweet wine). I make it unsweetened, and those who want sugar can add in it.
- Also, rather than boiling the spices in the stuff then straining it out, I tie the spices up looseley in a few layers of cheese cloth & steep.
- Grains of Paradise are hard to find, but they are out there. Folks in Seattle can get them at Tenzing Momo (not the spice market) at the Pike Place Market. For those of you not in Seattle, Tenzing Momo is like a metaphysical/herbal/natural/incense/perfume type store. The "Spice" store didn't carry them. I found them on a fluke. Was buying primo catnip for my Hazel.
- Galingale (or possibly galingas) is supposed to be like a cross between a nutmeg and a pepper. I have not been able to find it. If anybody knows where to get some, please let me know.
- To make powdered hippocras, take a quarter of very fine cinnamon selected by tasting it, and half a quarter of fine flour of cinnamon, an oz of selected string ginger, fine and white, and an oz of Grain of Paradise, a sixth of nutmegs and galingale together, and bray them all together. And when you would make your hippocras, take a good half oz of this pwdr and two quarters of sugar and mix them with a qt of wine, by Paris measure. And note which the pwdr and the sugar mixed together is the Duke's pwdr.
- Grind them all together. To make hippocras add in 1/2 oz of the pwdr and 1/2 lb (1 c.) of sugar to a 2 qts of boiling wine (the qt used to measure wine in Paris c. 1393 was about 2 modern U.S. qts, the lb. and oz about the same as ours). Strain through a sleeve of Hippocrates (a tube of cloth, closed at one end).
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Nutrition Facts
| Amount Per Recipe | %DV |
|---|---|
| Recipe Size 139g | |
| Calories 301 | |
| Calories from Fat 13 | 4% |
| Total Fat 1.6g | 2% |
| Saturated Fat 0.45g | 2% |
| Trans Fat 0.0g | |
| Cholesterol 0mg | 0% |
| Sodium 15mg | 1% |
| Potassium 598mg | 17% |
| Total Carbs 96.07g | 26% |
| Dietary Fiber 60.7g | 202% |
| Sugars 2.91g | 2% |
| Protein 5.0g | 8% |
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