SC - saffron

[CBlackwill at aol.com]

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.