SC - saffron
Robin Carroll-Mann
harper at idt.net
Thu Mar 30 19:58:36 PST 2000
<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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Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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