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Here's the response to Helen on quantities, as promised.

Francesco

I was not
>thinking totals as much as how much of the rare stuff I needed to order.
Let us
>say I needed 1 lb of strong powder and one pound of sweet powder.  I have
>ordered from you 78 g of grains for paradise and 75 g of galingale.  Do you
>think that would be enough of those to flavor that amount>> -

This should be quite enough of grains and galingale. You mention having
ordered them from us. I will be watching the mail and get them off
immediately the order arrives. I looked at your bit on the website, and see
that the wedding is May 1, so there is not a great deal of leeway. I hope
when you say you are doing the feast for 400, you mean that you are planning
it, but others are cooking it. If you are doing the cooking, you won't have
time to get married . . . :)


My recipe for strong powder (poudre forte) calls for 1/8 oz cloves, 2 oz
pepper, 2 oz long pepper, and 2 nutmegs (about 1/3 to 1/2 oz). My recipe for
sweet powder (poudre douce) calls for 1/4 oz cloves, 1 oz ginger, 1 oz
cinnamon, and 1 oz malabathron (substitute bay leaves and a little more
cinnamon, or go to the Indian store and ask for "tejpat"). My recipe for
fine powder (poudre fine) calls for 1 1/16 oz ginger, 1/4 oz cinnamon, 1/8
oz cloves, 1/8 oz cloves, 1/8 oz grains of paradise, and 1/4 oz lump sugar.

However, I strongly suspect that the recipes were quite variable, so you can
adjust them to what is available. Just make sure that strong spices like
cloves and pepper predominate in the strong powder, and sweet spices like
ginger and cinnamon in the sweet powder. The grains and galingale should be
enough to give an exotic touch; substitute grains of paradise for some of
the pepper, and galingale for some of the ginger.

Your humble servant,
Francesco Sirene


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