reliquse

Updated: June 8, 2025

The first assize of ale seems not to have been enacted till the reign of Henry III. From a glossary of the fourteenth century, inserted in "Reliquse Antique," 1841, it appears that whey was then used as a drink; it occurs there as "cerum, i, quidam liquor, whey."

William Carew Hazlitt - Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine