Recipe - Ipocras

1 One half l Dry white or red wine, (1
bottle)
2/3 cup Sugar
5 Cloves garlic, crushed
5 Black peppercorns, crushed
1 Cinnamon stick, (3inch)
1 Piece peeled gingerroot,
(1/2inch) thinly cut or sliced up

Pour One half 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 cheeseclothlined sieve into a 2quart pitcher. Yield:
5One half cups (serving size: One half 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
17thcentury 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 screwon
cap is best for this sweet drink. Recipe can be doubled by starting with a
3liter bottle, removing 1 cup of wine, and doubling the remaining
ingredients.

Recipe by: Cooking Light, Nov/Dec 1994, page 104

Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #397 by igor@digex.net on Jan 28, 1997.