SC - REC: BAID MASUS

[david friedman]

>  > Phillipa Seton said
>  > For tonight's supper I made  **Baid Masus** from His Grace's Miscellany.
>  > I
>  > had never made it before.  It was delicious!  A very straight forward
>  > recipe
>  > and easy to make.  I didn't have any *mastic* however.  (I hope everyone
>  > got
>  > my previous post on mastic - a liquorice flavored sap)

I believe the information you posted said that mastic was the sap, 
and the bark was liquorice flavored. Mastic doesn't taste in the 
least like liquorice. More like turpentine (think retsina for a 
similar effect in something consumable), which is why we use it in 
very small quantities.

David/Cariadoc
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