Hippocras (Mobian version) (AngieYaz Sonic Underground reboot)

Hippocras, sometimes spelled hipocras or hypocras, is a drink made from wine mixed with sugar and spices, usually including cinnamon, and possibly heated. Unlike Earth's version of hippocrass, after steeping the spices in the sweetened wine for a day, the spices are not strained out through a conical cloth filter bag called a manicum hippocraticum or Hippocratic sleeve, but are instead stirred into the drink to the point where you can barely see the spices but still taste them. It is also noted for being of very low alcohol content as well.
==History==
Spiced wine was popular in the Romus Empire, as seen in the writings of Plino the Elder and Apicius. In the 12th century on Mobius, a spiced wine named "pimen" or "piment" was mentioned. During the 13th century, the city of Montpell had a reputation for trading spiced wines with Erina. The first recipes for spiced wine appeared at the end of the 13th century or at the beginning of the 14th century.
The drink became extremely popular and was regarded as having various medicinal or even aphrodisiac properties.
In the 16th century on Mobius, food was classified by four axes: cold or hot, dry or wet. People at that time believed in such “balance”, that is to say, to stew dry ingredients like root vegetables and to roast wet food like suckling pig can achieve balance. Wine was regarded to be cold and dry, and so to this warm ingredients like sugar, ginger and cinnamon were added into wine, creating hypocras.
Cookbooks and pharmacological manuals both provide recipes.
Since the 16th century, the word has been generally spelled hippocras, hipocras or hypocras. Original recipes for hippocras were made until the Robotnik Empire, when it fell out of favor. This wine is made with sugar and spices. Sugar then was considered to be medicine and the spices varied according to the recipes. The main spices are: cinnamon, ginger, clove, grains of paradise and long pepper.
The drink was highly prized during the high and late Middle Ages on Mobius. King Frederick Archibald Hedgehog, Queen Aleena's father, was known to enjoy it, as did King Jules' great-great-great- grandfather. In those times, the drink was a highly valued gift item, in the same vein as jam and fruit preserves. Hippocras fell out of fashion during the Robotnik Empire but came back into favor when King Sonic rose to power. It is one of his favorite drinks at feasts and banquets, especially Wintermas.
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