Editing Caudle (section)

== Recipes ==
A related recipe for [[skyr]], a cultured dairy product, appears in the early 13th century.{{sfn|Grewe and Hieatt|2001|p=42}} The earliest surviving recipe for caudle, from 1300 to 1325, is simply a list of ingredients: wine, wheat starch, raisins, and sugar to "abate the strength of the wine".{{sfn|Hieatt and Butler|1985|loc=Item 5|p=45}}

Another recipe from the late 14th century has more ingredients and more details on the cooking procedure: mix breadcrumbs, wine, sugar or honey, and saffron, bring to a boil, then thicken with egg yolks, and sprinkle with salt, sugar, and ginger.{{sfn|Hieatt and Butler|1985|loc=Item 43}}{{sfn|Austin|1888}} A 15th-century English cookbook includes three caudle recipes: ale or wine is heated and thickened with egg yolks and/or ground almonds, then optionally spiced with sugar, honey, saffron, and/or ginger (one recipe specifically says "no salt").{{sfn|Hieatt and Pensado|1988|loc=Items 83, 84 and 139}} In a description of an [[initiation ceremony]] at [[Merton College, Oxford]] in 1647, caudle is described as a "syrupy gruel with spices and wine or ale added".{{sfn|Olmert|1996|p=174}} [[William Carew Hazlitt]] provides a number of recipes for caudles and [[posset]]s in his 1886 book, ''Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine''.{{sfn|Hazlitt|1886}}

The [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|''Encyclopædia Britannica'' Eleventh Edition]] describes it as "a drink of warm [[gruel]], mixed with spice and wine, formerly given to women in childbed",<ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Caudle|volume=5|page=556}}</ref> i.e. as a restorative food during her [[postpartum confinement]].

[[Emily Post]]'s 1922 ''[[Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, and at Home]]'', the classic guide to American manners, states that "although according to cook-books caudle is a gruel, the actual "caudle" invariably served at christenings is a hot [[eggnog]], drunk out of little punch cups"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Post |first1=Emily |title=Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home |date=2007 |publisher=Cosimo, Inc. |isbn=9781602061149 |page=386 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wSUvoAC5Sp8C&q=%22cake+and+caudle%22&pg=PA386 |accessdate=31 December 2018 |language=en}}</ref> (see [[Punch bowl]]).