A friend of mine posted on her journal asking about period hot drink recipes. Since not everyone on her flist is also on mine, I am posting my recipes here for more people to enjoy
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Hattox, Ralph S. Coffee and coffeehouses : the origins of a social beverage in the medieval Near East / University of Washington Press ed. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1988, c1985
Ukers, William H. (William Harrison), 1873-1945. All about coffee / by William H. Ukers. 2nd ed. Mansfield Center, CT : Martino, 2006. ISBN: 1578986303 (cloth : alk. paper)
Ukers, William H. (William Harrison), 1873-1945. The romance of coffee; an outline history of coffee and coffee-drinking through a thousand years. [1st ed.] New York, Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Co., 1948. xvi, 280 p. illus., map. 21 cm.
Pendergrast, Mark. Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world / Mark Pendergrast. New York, NY : Basic Books, c1999. xix, 458 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. ISBN: 0465036317 (cloth)
Wild, Antony, 1955- Coffee : a dark history / Antony Wild. 1st American ed. New York : W.W. Norton, 2005. xi, 323 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. ISBN: 0393060713
Here is an interesting time-line written by Terry Decker, aka 'Bear'
Rhazes (900) and Avicenna (1000) both speak of the coffee plant and berry. Neither speaks of coffee as a beverage. Their possession of the plant and berries suggests that there was a medical trade in coffee. Coffee was probably ground and used as a powder rather than infused in a beverage.
The first references to coffee as a drink are apocryphal and, at the earliest, date from 1258 (Mocha, Yemen). Coffee was being used as a beverage in Sufi rituals. In fact until 1454, the most common use of coffee appears to have been by the Sufis. Since Sufism originates in Persia and Rhazes and Avicenna were both Persians, there may be a link between the Sufis and the physicians of Persia in the creation of coffee as a beverage,but there are no facts currently available.
The first historical record of coffee drinking is from a treatise on coffee written in approximately 1558. It records a meeting between a Yemen jurist and Shaykh Jamal al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Dhabbani, an imam, mufti, and Sufi from Aden. As al-Dhabbani died about 1470, the account establishes coffee as a beverage by the mid-15th Century. Al-Dhabbani is apparently the key figure in the commercialization of coffee, having started plantations in Yemen after being introduced to the beverage in Abyssinia in 1454.
By 1540, coffee was a common, if not universally accepted, beverage in the Islamic World. Leonard Rauwolf of Augsburg was the first European to describe coffee from a trip to the Levant in 1570.
In the last quarter of the 16th Century, the Venetians began importing coffee into Northern Italy. The initial importer may have been Gianfrancesco Morosini, the city magistrate at Constantinople, who is known to have encountered the beverage in 1585, or a major spice trader named Mocengio. These initial imports would most likely have been for wealthy clients, who had developed a taste for coffee while travelling in the Ottoman Empire. General coffee use in Italy did not get established until about 1645.
One of the chief errors made about the history of coffee is placing coffee at the gates of Vienna in 1529. Coffee was new in Constatinople at that time and if there was any at Vienna, there wasn't much. The coffee which started the first Viennese coffee house was lost by the Ottomans during the siege of 1683. So, no known coffee in 1529.
Until the last century of our period, coffee was largely limited to the Red Sea area. It then spread through Islam. It spread from the Ottoman Empire into Europe only in the last 25 years of our period and then only into Northern Italy.
There was an article written on Coffee in the TI some years back. From the discussion about the article, it seems to have been poorly written and only used sources that have since been discredited scholastically.
Again... more stuff for you to post in the food blog, young lady. :3
How hard are these books to buy? If you find them, I'll pay you for them since you are so good at getting them cheap (no you DON'T buy them and NOT get reimbursed... or just send me links to them please).
I know where to find a sip in time... at least I'm pretty sure.
I also need you (if possible please) to help me find a pottery's wheel for $50-$75. You have the magic hands, you know. :) I want a student/small wheel for the studio. It has to be small. Tank u.
I don't think that adding this to the blog would be good. All I did was make a list of books, which is easy-peasy. The timeline is someone else's work. I cannot take credit for that.
Hattox, Ralph S. Coffee and coffeehouses : the origins of a social beverage in the medieval Near East / University of Washington Press ed. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1988, c1985
Ukers, William H. (William Harrison), 1873-1945.
All about coffee / by William H. Ukers. 2nd ed.
Mansfield Center, CT : Martino, 2006.
ISBN: 1578986303 (cloth : alk. paper)
Ukers, William H. (William Harrison), 1873-1945.
The romance of coffee; an outline history of coffee and coffee-drinking through a thousand years. [1st ed.]
New York, Tea and Coffee Trade Journal Co., 1948.
xvi, 280 p. illus., map. 21 cm.
Pendergrast, Mark.
Uncommon grounds : the history of coffee and how it transformed our world / Mark Pendergrast.
New York, NY : Basic Books, c1999.
xix, 458 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
ISBN: 0465036317 (cloth)
Wild, Antony, 1955-
Coffee : a dark history / Antony Wild. 1st American ed.
New York : W.W. Norton, 2005.
xi, 323 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0393060713
Here is an interesting time-line written by Terry Decker, aka 'Bear'
Rhazes (900) and Avicenna (1000) both speak of the coffee plant and berry. Neither speaks of coffee as a beverage. Their possession of the plant and
berries suggests that there was a medical trade in coffee. Coffee was probably ground and used as a powder rather than infused in a beverage.
The first references to coffee as a drink are apocryphal and, at the earliest, date from 1258 (Mocha, Yemen). Coffee was being used as a beverage in Sufi rituals. In fact until 1454, the most common use of coffee appears to have been by the Sufis. Since Sufism originates in Persia and Rhazes and Avicenna were both Persians, there may be a link between the Sufis and the physicians of Persia in the creation of coffee as a beverage,but there are no facts currently available.
The first historical record of coffee drinking is from a treatise on coffee written in approximately 1558. It records a meeting between a Yemen jurist and Shaykh Jamal al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Sa'id al-Dhabbani, an imam, mufti, and Sufi from Aden. As al-Dhabbani died about 1470, the account establishes coffee as a beverage by the mid-15th Century. Al-Dhabbani is apparently the key figure in the commercialization of coffee, having started plantations in Yemen after being introduced to the beverage in Abyssinia in 1454.
By 1540, coffee was a common, if not universally accepted, beverage in the Islamic World. Leonard Rauwolf of Augsburg was the first European to describe coffee from a trip to the Levant in 1570.
In the last quarter of the 16th Century, the Venetians began importing coffee into Northern Italy. The initial importer may have been Gianfrancesco Morosini, the city magistrate at Constantinople, who is known to have encountered the beverage in 1585, or a major spice trader named Mocengio. These initial imports would most likely have been for wealthy clients, who had developed a taste for coffee while travelling in the Ottoman Empire. General coffee use in Italy did not get established until about 1645.
One of the chief errors made about the history of coffee is placing coffee at the gates of Vienna in 1529. Coffee was new in Constatinople at that time and if there was any at Vienna, there wasn't much. The coffee which started the first Viennese coffee house was lost by the Ottomans during the siege of 1683. So, no known coffee in 1529.
Until the last century of our period, coffee was largely limited to the Red Sea area. It then spread through Islam. It spread from the Ottoman Empire into Europe only in the last 25 years of our period and then only into Northern Italy.
There was an article written on Coffee in the TI some years back. From the discussion about the article, it seems to have been poorly written and only used sources that have since been discredited scholastically.
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How hard are these books to buy? If you find them, I'll pay you for them since you are so good at getting them cheap (no you DON'T buy them and NOT get reimbursed... or just send me links to them please).
I know where to find a sip in time... at least I'm pretty sure.
I also need you (if possible please) to help me find a pottery's wheel for $50-$75. You have the magic hands, you know. :) I want a student/small wheel for the studio. It has to be small. Tank u.
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