During the era of Middle Ages,throughout Europe,a mulled or spiced wine commonly consumed at the end of a meal as a digestive,sweetened with honey or containing sugar,named“Hyppocras”(or hypocras,hippocras,ypocras,i...During the era of Middle Ages,throughout Europe,a mulled or spiced wine commonly consumed at the end of a meal as a digestive,sweetened with honey or containing sugar,named“Hyppocras”(or hypocras,hippocras,ypocras,ipocras,Latin:Vinum Hippocraticum),was the most famous aperitif,having also a cluster of supposedly drug qualities[1,2].Hyppocras was regularly served as a digestive at the end of the meal,becoming symbolically the ceremonial conclusion of any banquet since 14th century[3].Evidence of the high regard Hyppocras enjoyed among the medieval lore is testified by the fact that a recipe of the wine enriched with rosewater and raisins,survived within the work“On Wines”written by one on the most esteemed physicians of the 13th century.展开更多
文摘During the era of Middle Ages,throughout Europe,a mulled or spiced wine commonly consumed at the end of a meal as a digestive,sweetened with honey or containing sugar,named“Hyppocras”(or hypocras,hippocras,ypocras,ipocras,Latin:Vinum Hippocraticum),was the most famous aperitif,having also a cluster of supposedly drug qualities[1,2].Hyppocras was regularly served as a digestive at the end of the meal,becoming symbolically the ceremonial conclusion of any banquet since 14th century[3].Evidence of the high regard Hyppocras enjoyed among the medieval lore is testified by the fact that a recipe of the wine enriched with rosewater and raisins,survived within the work“On Wines”written by one on the most esteemed physicians of the 13th century.
