Historical cookbooks routinely mention cooking and wine. For example, wine is used in stews, soups, sauces, marinades, dressings, pies, pastries, sausages, casseroles, cookies, puddings, custards, fritters, waffles, and even devilled eggs. Historical cooking manuscripts not only show recipes with wine, but also recipes for wine, such as hypocras.
Hypocras
Hypocras is a lightly sweetened, spiced wine that refers to the Greek physician Hippocrates (fifth century BC). Every cook and kitchen maid had his or her own version of this flavoured wine.
