HERB - Spices anyone?

[Jenne Heise]

> I've got an upcoming dessert revel (in a week and a half)
> I need to know if anyone can give me a list of period spices (1515 AD)
> I want to make something along the line of an apple pastery with spices.
> I just made an apple pie strewn with freshly crushed cloves and 
> cinnamon...yum, I wanted to do something similar for the dessert revel.

Um. Do you want to know what spices are period for apple dishes, or just
what spices were being used at that time?

Off the top of my head, I can say, cinnamon, cassia, nutmeg, mace, cloves,
ginger, galingale, saffron, citrus peel, sugar, pepper...
Check Food & drink in Britain, by C. Anne Wilson, and Banckes Herbal
[1525].. for more detail.

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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