Cordial

1)A friendly and warm gretting.

2)A tonic made from plant matter (eg fruits, vegetables, leaves). Medeival cordials could be alcoholic or non-alcoholic and were generally consumed for their presumed good effects upon the person's health.

Modern fruit cordials (concentrates of fruit juice and sugar which are diluted wth water) availible in australia (but strangely rare in nothern europe) bear some similarity to certain medeival cordials, and are thus often provided to drink at feasts in Lochac.