the roamer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samuelpepys" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>samuelpepys</span></a></span> </p><p>"... and drank some Rhenish wine and sugar."</p><p>Hhhmmm, wine and sugar? Are you sure? I've been searching the net but haven't been able to find a proper detailed souce. It is clear though that mixing wine with sugar was quite a common thing at the time. (Rhenish wine at the time being a light, low-alc wine.)</p><p>My search brought up this pleasant little article about our friend Sam's consumption patterns, by historian Steven Shapin in a 2005 New Yorker.</p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/08/01/liquid-assets" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newyorker.com/magazine/2005/08</span><span class="invisible">/01/liquid-assets</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Pepys" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pepys</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/RhenishWine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RhenishWine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WineAndSugar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WineAndSugar</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/StevenShapin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StevenShapin</span></a></p>