HERB - rose tablets from Spain

[Gaylin]

A little while ago were were talking about how to make rose beads, right?
Well, a nice lady named Ximena (Dana Hoffman) on the SCA Cook's list and
the Apicius eGroups list has been gradually translating a manuscript called
"Manual de mujeres." Her latest installment is  recipes #98-101,125,127.
In this set is a recipe for making rose-scented tablets, a practice we
might fine very close to making rose-scented beads. Here is the orginal
and her translation:

101 Receta para hacer pasticas de perfume de rosas

      Tomar una libra de rosas sin las cabezuelas, y siete
onzas de menjuí molido. Echar las rosas en remojo en agua
almizclada y estén una noche. Sacar después estas rosas y
expremidlas mucho del agua, y majadlas con el menjuí. Y al
majar, poner con ello una cuarta de ámbar y otra de
algalia. Y después de majadas, hacer vuestras pasticas y
ponedlas cada una entre dos hojas de rosas, y secadlas
donde no les dé el sol.

Recipe for making rose-scented tablets
      Take a pound of roses without the flower heads, and
seven ounces of ground benzoin.  Put the roses to soak in
musk water for a night.  Remove these roses afterwards and
thoroughly squeeze out the water, and grind them with the
benzoin.  And when grinding, put with it a quarter of amber
and another of civet [musk].  And after [they are] ground,
make your tablets and put each one between two rose leaves,
and dry them away from the sun.

Enjoy!

Jasmine
Iasmin de Cordoba
iasmin at home.com or gwalli at ptc.com
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