Maren McKenna

And she figured out that the monastery where this leech book was written, well, she figured out where their vineyard was.

And just down the road, there's this modern organic vineyard.

So they used that wine.

I just want to point out how difficult it is to find English wine.

We had to use Italian.

Once you get all that stuff together, you're onto the final ingredient.

The fifth ingredient was actually that you're specifically told that you have to mix these ingredients together in a brass or a bronze pot.

I don't have one.

So we had to sort of add pieces of copper that would have been available to people at the time.

So they had to do some research, but they figured out that the copper of today that is most like the copper of a millennium ago

was actually cartridge brass, which is what's used as standard in plumbing fittings.

Dropped a few pennies in there.

We actually use pennies.

Do I stir it?

I think I stir it.

This is like the world's worst cooking show.

It looks and smells like quite a nice summer soup.

Oh, that's awful.

Oh, that's so gross.

Clearly we botched this whole thing.