SC - More on Shortbread

[jeffrey s heilveil]

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> There is a book of recipes associated with Catherine de Medici.  It was
> published in 1555 by Girolamo Rusceli, an Italian who was Catherine's
> astrologer.
> The book is The Secrets of the Reverand Master Alixis of Piedmont and it
> has been described to me as a collection of remedies with the odd
> cooking recipe thrown in. 
> 
> Bear
> = >>
>      Oh, my...........! Any chance there's a modern English translation
>available??? Or *any* modern reprint at all?
>
>      Ldy Diana, who is inconstant search of period herbals and such

I seriously doubt it.  A history major named Charlie Stennis told me
about it years ago.  I recently came across a reference to it in
Trager's The Food Chronology.

Bear
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