SC - Chicken soup challenge

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And it came to pass on 4 Oct 00, , that david friedman wrote:

> Not only are there period recipes, there is a period recipe for a 
> chicken soup to cure what ails you. It's from Du Fait de Cuisine:
[snip]
> and an ounce or more of fine pearls which should be put in a 
> very little bag made of fair and clean cloth of strong silk or linen, 
> and also very good, virtuous, valiant and worthy precious stones, 
> that is diamonds, pearls, rubies, sapphires, turquoises, emeralds, 
> coral, amber, jasper, jacinth, chalcedonies(?), onyx, crystal, 
> chalcedonies, smaragdus [emerald? malachite?], sardonyx, sard, 
> chrysolites [peridot?], beryls, topazes, chrysoprase, and amethysts, 
> and all other good and virtuous precious stones-of all these only 
> those ordered by the doctor; and let them be put together in another 
> little bag made of white and clean linen cloth, and strong enough 
> that it will never break so that the stones cannot mix with the said 
> capon meat; and also with sixty or eighty or more pieces of fine 
> gold, ducats and jewels and other pieces which should first be very 
> well washed in three or four changes of lukewarm water, and very well 
> dried off with the corner of a very fair, white, and clean linen 
> cloth,

Nola's recipe is similar, but nuch less expensive -- it only calls for 
50 pieces of gold.  Furthermore it will "revive half-dead bodies and 
those who are at the end of life".  AND it contains basil.

Brighid, feeling another footnote coming on...


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
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