SC - Period fruit candy.

[Jeff Heilveil]

I have an email address for one of the translators. Maybe I should drop him a
line.

No guarantee he'll reply though..


Drake.

>Paul Buell replied to me:
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>>>Maybe sappan wood? I would need some characters.
>
>Is there some place to find the original characters?
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>
>
>Phlip
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>Nolo disputare, volo somniare et contendere, et iterum somniare.
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>phlip at morganco.net
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>Philippa Farrour
>Caer Frig
>Southeastern Ohio
>
>"All things are poisons.  It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a
>poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus
>
>"Oats -- a grain which in England sustains the horses, and in
>Scotland, the men." -- Johnson
>
>"It was pleasant to me to find that 'oats,' the 'food of horses,' were
>so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
>Boswell
>
>"And where will you find such horses, and such men?" -- Anonymous
>
>
>>> Duke Cheng's Method for Brewing Wine
>>>
>>> from Ni Tsan's Cloud Forest Hall Collection of Rules for Drinking and
>>> Eating.
>>> Translated by T. Wang & E. N. Anderson.  Chinese Yuan Dynasty (14th
>Cent.)
>>> Text
>>>
>>> Thirty catties of white flour. A peck of mung beans, cooked soft. An
>ounce
>>> of
>>> t'ui sha-wood aromatic. An ounce of official-quality cassia powder.
>Thirty
>>> lotus flower buds; use only roots and petals and grind them - do not use
>>> branches or styles. Mash and grind sweet melon. Use a piece of cloth and
>>> grind
>>> about one bowl of the sweet melon meat. Mash smartweed to obtain its
>>juice.
>>> Mix
>>> all these together till the damp and dry are combined. Wrap with a piece
>>of
>>> cloth. Tread it out firm. Wrap it again with two layers (?) of mulberry
>>> leaves,
>>> then tie in a sack and let it air out tied to a beam. Take it out after a
>>> month, remove the mulberry leaves, and apply leaven thoroughly to the
>>> surface.
>>> Leave it out to sun and to be covered with dew at night. After about a
>>> month,
>>> put it in a pot and seal it. Every thirty catties of flour can be made
>>into
>>> seventy of wine dough.
>>>
>>> Translator's Notes:
>>> 'Duke Cheng' may be an error for Duke K'uo, a well-known brewing-expert.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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