[Herbalist] help?y

[Jenne Heise]

The 'reconstructed' recipe is NOT a period recipe. (Baking powder? Egg?)

Here's a translation of the original:
"Take some nutmeg and an equal weight of cinnamon and a bit of cloves, and
pulverize them. Then make small cakes with this and fine whole wheat flour
and water. Eat them often. It will calm all bitterness of the heart and
mind, open your heart and impaired senses, and make your mind cheeful."
(Translation by Patricial Throop, published by Healing arts press.)

> The recipe follows; however, it is titled "St. Hildegard's Cookies of Joy,"
> with the note:  "(Recipe reconstructed and adapted from Hildegard's circa
> 1157 treatise Physica:  Liber Simplicis Medicinae."  The note following the
> recipe states, "Recipe researched for Sound & Spirit by Jeffrey Nelson with
> the help of a gracious doctoral student who wished to remain anonymous."
>
> The recipe given follows:
>
> 3/4 cup butter or margarine (1 1/2 sticks)
> 1 cup brown sugar
> 1 egg
> 1 tsp baking powder
> 1/4 tsp salt
> 1 1/2 cups flour
> 1 tsp ground cinnamon
> 1 tsp ground nutmeg
> 1/2 tsp ground cloves
>
> "Let butter soften and then cream it with the brown sugar.  Beat in the egg.
> Sift the dry ingredients.  Add half the dry ingredients and mix.  Add the
> other half and mix thoroughly.  Dough may be chilled to make it workable.
> Heat oven to 350 (degrees).  Form walnut sized balls of dough, place on
> greased and floured cookie sheet and press flat.  Bake 12-15 minutes (till
> edges of are golden brown.)  Cool for 5 minutes, remove from cookie sheet
> and finish cooling on racks."
>
> >From Stefan's Florilegium,
> http://www.florilegium.org/
>
> a highly-recommended collection of messages from the SCA usenet group,
> fondly known as "The Rialto" (or "The Flame Pit", depending upon just when
> you decide to look into it...).
>
>
> --
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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at mail.browser.net
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