Hippocras

Eat this slice of marchpane, it will help your digestion; then shall you be presented with a cup of claret hippocras, which is right healthful and stomachal. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Heyford, tell thy comely wife that I and Hastings will sup with her to-morrow, for her hippocras is a rare dainty. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)

To make hippocras: Take a gallon of claret of white wine, and put therein four ounces of ginger, an ounce and a half of nutmegs, of cloves one quarter, of sugar four pound; let all this stand together in a pot at least twelve hours, then take it, and put it into a clean bag made for the purpose, so that the wine may come with good leisure from the spices. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Illustrations in medieval health handbooks often depict people buying spiced wine (hippocras), which being classed as drying and heating was considered a tasty and convenient remedy for a cool or wet affliction, or merely as a safeguard against the perils of the cold and wet winter: not unlike a vaccination. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Every weekend the couple and their friends -- who call themselves the Gentsche Ghesellen, or Ghent companions -- sleep in windowless tent encampments where they build benches from branches, bake bread, sing religious tributes to the Virgin Mary and drink hippocras, a 14th-century wine drink spiced with ginger, cloves and pepper. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Lord Mountclere warmed from surface to centre as if he had drunk of hippocras, and, after holding her hand for some moments, raised it gently to his lips. ❋ Unknown (2006)

On special occasions, in the middle ages, after the dessert, hippocras was served, as they have liqueurs to this day on the Continent both after dinner and after the mid-day breakfast. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And I found them a lazy-person's hippocras recipe that can be made with locally-available spices. ❋ Gillpolack (2005)

White hippocras, Fricassees, nine Cold loins of veal, with dry toasts.sorts. with spice. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Thither he caused to be brought store of mirobolans, cashou, green ginger preserved, with plenty of hippocras, and delicious wine. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Which being done, they give him lampreys with hippocras sauce: ❋ Unknown (2002)

The guests had drunk so much hippocras by this time that they thought the bugs were funny, and walked them up and down the table until their little toothpick legs fell off, or set them on ladies 'headdresses or bosoms. ❋ Unknown (1997)

[Flu shot] or hippocras? You [decide] ❋ Wolfdogg8my<3 (2009)