SC - Alojas/Aloxas -- Spanish/Catalan confection (long and polyglot)
TG
gloning at Mailer.Uni-Marburg.DE
Wed Aug 30 07:35:44 PDT 2000
<< If someone (Thomas?) would care to translate the Latin here, I'd be
grateful. >>
Well, I can try...
Concordia pharmacopolarum Barcinonensium
Common book/pharmacopoeia of the apothecaries of Barcelona
"ALOSA COMMUNIS PECTORALIS USUALIS.
ordinary Alosa good for the chest/lung
Rx (=Recipe)
Take
Sacchari albissimi -- uncias quinque
Of most white sugar -- five ounces
Aquae Rosarum -- uncias quator
Of rose water -- four ounces
Amyli recentissimi -- unciam unam
Of most fresh starch -- one ounce
Olei Amygdalorum |
dulcium recentissimi | -- unciam semissem
Of most fresh oil of sweet almondtrees [or: milk of sweet almonds?]
-- half an ounce
Misce & coque in diplomate ad justam crassitiem."
Mix it and cook it in a diploma [a double sided cooking vessel with
water in between the two sides] until it has the right thickness/
viscosity
Th.
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