Re: What is bread rusk ?(MaybeNewSausageMaker!)

On Sat, 06 Aug 2005 00:07:14 +0100 (BST), Brian {Hamilton Kelly} 
   <bhk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Tuesday, in article
>      <slrndeutl6.7nr.chris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> chris@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>      "Chris Croughton" wrote:
> 
>> If you ferment apple juice, you get cider.
>> If you ferment honey, you get mead.
>> If you mix apple juice and honey and then ferment it, you get --
>> something which has a lot of alcohol (one person I knew regularly got
>> over 15% ABV) and doesn't taste as though it has much at all because
>> it's still sweet.  And that's Cyzer (siser, ciser, and many other
>> spellings)...
> 
> Metheglin (or, in Welsh, Meddyglyn)?

As I understand it metheglin is a generic term for a fermented drink
with the principal ingredient being honey, so including cyser, but is
also normally spiced with herbs (the Cymraeg comes from "medicinal
liquor", referring to the herbs used).

Some older uses also use the term for unfermented drink of honey and
herbs, but that isn't common recently (I regard anything after the death
of Elizabeth Queen of England as recent, though <g>).

Chris C