SC - saffron
CBlackwill at aol.com
CBlackwill at aol.com
Thu Mar 30 23:03:55 PST 2000
In a message dated 3/30/00 8:06:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, harper at idt.net
writes:
> </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."
>
So, by this recipe, if you paid drachmas to a spice merchant with no
scruples, you wouldn't get any change.
Man cannot live on bread alone... he must have beer to soak it in.
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