Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Wheatley and L&M are often in disagreement about these items. There was some discussion here http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/04/05/ and a little more here http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1661/04/09/
OED:[a. ONF. caudel (= central OF. chaudel, mod.F. chaudeau): med.L. caldellum, dim. of caldum, calidum (neut. of caldus, calidus warm) ‘a hot drink’.]
1. A warm drink consisting of thin gruel, mixed with wine or ale, sweetened and spiced, given chiefly to sick people, esp. women in childbed; also to their visitors.
then Sams quote.
before our time?
1588 Marprel. Epist. (1845) 22 He hath prooued you to haue deserued a cawdell of Hempseed, and a playster of neckweed. 1593 SHAKES. 2 Hen. VI, IV. vii. 95 Ye shall haue a hempen Caudle then, and the help of hatchet.
2. Comb. caudle-cup.
there also appears to connect to Coddle:
(Cotgr. has an obs. F. cadeler ‘to cocker, pamper, fedle, cherish, make much of’; but this is unknown elsewhere.)]
A cawdle for a sick body
PERIOD: England, 17th century | SOURCE: The Cooks Guide: Or, Rare Receipts for Cookery, 1654 | CLASS: Authentic
DESCRIPTION: A soothing lemon & egg drink
A cawdle for a sick body.
Take lemmon posset drink and thicken it with the yolks of eggs, and sweeten it with sugar.
to make cyderhttp://www.godecookery.com/engrec/engrec41.html
to make cock ale [perfect explainable]
another source, Samuel Johnson’s Dict.
“caudle n.s. [chaudeau, Fr] a mixture of wine and other ingredians, given to women in childbed, and sick persons.”
Quothe Shakesp Henry VI p. ii
and Wiseman’s Surgery.
Michael Quinion knows his possets, caudles, and cordials: