SC - saffron

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

<FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param><smaller>And it came to pass on 30 Mar 00,, that Huette von Ahrens wrote:


<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param><FontFamily><param>Arial</param><bigger>> > Not necessarily.  De Nola says that spices, like

> > other precious

> > substances, are weighed in troy ounces.

> > 

> > Brighid

> 

> Touche!

> 

> I didn't know that.


This is his comment at the end of a recipe for "Duke's powder", a spice 
mixture:


</color>"And the weights of the spices in the apothecary shops are in this 
manner: one pound is twelve ounces; one ounce, eight drachmas; one 
drachma, three scruples: another way that you can more clearly 
understand this: a drachma weights three dineros; a scruple is the 
weight of one dinero; and a scruple is twenty grains of wheat."



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