SC - Middle East-Help needed

[david friedman]

At 9:41 PM -0500 4/4/98, LrdRas wrote:
>I have uqiyas, ratls and dirhams down pat but I was interested in  redacting a
>recipe from the Andelusian cookbbok that lists a measurement term I am
>unfamiliar with and it is not translated. The term is "mudd". Would anyone
>know what amount is being specified when this term is being used? Thanks in
>advance.

"1 mudd (< modius, the Roman peck); in the Maghrib=4.32 liters. Some
recipes in this book refer to the "small mudd," which might have been 1.08
liters."

That is from the notes at the backof the Andalusian cookbook, based on what
Charles Perry told me.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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