SC - Mastic Thyme

[LYN M PARKINSON]

Adamantius,

Prescott's translation for #152, To Make Cameline [Sauce], calls for
'mastic thyme' but does not give the original.

Mastic, which I believe is mace, is in another Cameline, in the original,
in Scully's _Early French Cookery_.  My French is woeful--what is
'girofle' ?  Is that galingale?  Powdered giraffe horns? 


Chiquart calls for 'macys' in the same place as the 'mastic' by itself in
Taillevent, and both are listed after pepper and before ginger.  Ergo,
spice.


Terrendon the Wanderer gave me a definition for mastic thyme from his
herb encyclopedia, so I think I've got it, if Prescott really meant
mastic thyme and not mace, although, looking again at the placement in
the list, I think it must have been mace.


Thanks for everybody's help.  I'll be 'off the air' for about ten days. 
Talk to you later.


Allison