Essentially a cheap dry sherry: (copped from a website on Pepys' diary) ******* Definition from 1911 Enclyclopedia site A Spanish wine, which was of a strong, rough, dry kind (in Fr. vin sec, whence the name), and therefore usually sweetened and mixed with spice and mulled or burnt. It became a common name for all the stronger white wines of the South. ******* South meaning south of Spain.....not particularly well known these days, but quite popular in England in the time of Elizabeth and up to at least 1800. Not only is it referred to in Pepys' diary, but readers of Shakespeare will recognize it as Falstaff's beverage of choice. --pig On 12/31/03 4:47 PM, DonnyPerry@aol.com shared this thought: > Hey you all ... what is the "sack" mentioned in the recipe below?