SC - rare foods at feasts-rant

[david friedman]

At 11:43 PM -0700 9/25/00, Bonne of Traquair wrote:

>There are also small 'vanilla extract' sized bottles of much more 
>concentrated rosewater.  If used in vanilla extract sized 
>quantities, many people will eat the resulting product, if used in 
>the quantities sometimes called for in the middle ages recipes, not 
>only will you go broke, but the dish will so reek of rose scent that 
>I'd bet not many people will eat it.


What medieval recipe were you thinking of that specifies the quantity 
of rosewater?
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