SC - Marmalade
Peldyn@aol.com
Peldyn at aol.com
Sun Nov 28 09:31:38 PST 1999
In a message dated 11/28/99 3:27:15 AM Eastern Standard Time,
ringofkings at mindspring.com writes:
<< Could freshness of
modern spices (by comparison)
or stronger modern varieties of the spices account for the apparent greater
quantities specified in period accounts?
Akim Yaroslavich >>
Possibly, especially with the herbs you mention, such as sage and thyme
although they would have been grown locally in the herb/kitchen/medicine
garden so would most likely have not been 'imported'. The only spices I ever
have trouble with that are oriental are those that can more properly be
called 'herbs'. I have little problem with any noticeable deterioration of
seeds and bark personally. I have a few 'spices' that are several years old
and I see no deterioration evident yet.
I have heard various theories about the so called deterioration of spices
during transport but have seen no actual period sources which site this as a
problem so far. Possibly others might have.
Ras
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