Ipocras
11 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 1½ | litre | Dry white or red wine, (1 bottle) |
| ⅔ | cup | Sugar |
| 5 | Cloves garlic, crushed | |
| 5 | Black peppercorns, crushed | |
| 1 | Cinnamon stick, (3-inch) | |
| 1 | Piece peeled gingerroot, (1/2-inch) thinly sliced | |
Directions
Pour ½ cup wine from bottle (just enough to allow room to add the other ingredients to bottle); reserve for another use. Gradually add sugar to bottle through a funnel, and add cloves and remaining ingredients. Recap bottle, and shake vigorously. Chill overnight.
Strain through a cheesecloth-lined sieve into a 2-quart pitcher. Yield: 5-½ cups (serving size: ½ cup).
Per serving: 158 Calories; 0g Fat (2% calories from fat); 1g Protein; 18g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 10mg Sodium NOTES : Drink from the healer's sleeve! As legend would have it, this beverage was once filtered through the "sleeve of Hippocrates," the 17th-century term for a conical filter that's made of linen, cotton, or wool. Hippocrates was the famed Greek physician who probably observed that the more you drink, the less you speak, and, so over time (or many goblets), Hippocrates becomes "Ipocras." Inexpensive wine with the screw-on cap is best for this sweet drink. Recipe can be doubled by starting with a 3-liter bottle, removing 1 cup of wine, and doubling the remaining ingredients.
Recipe by: Cooking Light, Nov/Dec 1994, page 104 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #397 by igor@... on Jan 28, 1997.