SC - transporting ingredients

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/30/00 7:22:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
morgana.abbey at juno.com writes:

<< One thing you may have noticed: when quantities of spices *are* mentioned
 in period recipes, it looks like a ridiculously large amount.  It is.  >>

There is also the fact that spice grinders wandered from manor to manor and 
that the quantities listed may well be a standard formula of quantity used 
for grinding assuring that enough was done to last a while before the tedious 
process had to be done again.

OTOH, they could simply be inaccurate quantities. al-Baghdadi and most other 
period middle eastern and Andelusian recipes list quantities and they are not 
inaccurate nor are they excessively large amounts for the recipe when a 
standard size of approximately 1 1/2 LB of meat is used as the basic 
ingredient.

Ras