“He had asked us what we wanted to drink, wine or terracina, which is rice wine (cervisia), or caracosmos, which is clarified mares milk, or bal which is honey mead. For in winter they make use of these four kinds of drinks.”-'A Mission to the Great Khan', by William of Rubruck, c 1253-4
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