Name: Sops Chamberlain
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: ½ pt/300 ml hippocras [or red or white wine in which 1 tsp ground cinnamon and ginger and 1 tbs sugar have been soaked for 3–4 hours, and then filtered out]; 3 slices white bread prepared as sops

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking and Dining in Medieval England

By Peter Brears

Published 2008

About

Since early recipes for this dish make no mention of heat or cooking, it appears to have been a simple, cold dish which a chamberlain could easily make for his lord or lady using the ingredients kept in the livery cupboard, rather than in the kitchen.