I think you must mean bread, meal? and wine?
On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, BEATRIZ MIRANDA wrote:
> About the quantity of wine consumed by the monks, I think that the great
> quantity is due to their the poor alimentary diet , the bases of their
> diet was bread , meat and wine . I believe that the wine was important
> necessary as a caloric complemetation. An other answer for this quetion
> is the afirmation by Antonio H. de oliveira Marques (A Sociedade
> Medieval Portuguesa): they drank the wine mixed with water , that mixture
> was used to kill the thirst . He says that one part of wine and two parts
> of water , was the ideal drink for them .
>
> Beatriz Miranda
>
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