[Sca-cooks] online glossary

[Peters, Rise J.]

Cantharides is "spanish fly", the so-called aphrodesiac, actually extracted
from a beetle.    It is poisonous but was used medically in history (as were
and are many other poisonous things).

Cantarides, no h -- is it the same thing, or different?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cindy M. Renfrow [mailto:cindy at thousandeggs.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 2:52 PM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] online glossary
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> >I'd want to see the full recipe, again.  Is it a sweet thing, as most
> >marmalades are?  And why is it listed as "medicine"?  Does
> anyone know
> >what flavour the seeds of red nettles have?  If they're
> peppery, rocket
> >*might* be meaningful, but my understanding of the name
> "rocket" is that
> >it's called that because it grows so fast.  Was the word
> "rocket" used
> >as we understand it in the 17th century?
> >
> >Yours,
> >
> >Katherine
> >
>
>
> A Closet for Ladies and Gentlewomen, 1636 - To make another sort of
> Marmelade very comfortable for any Lord or Lady whatsoever.
> Take of the purest greene Ginger, six drammes; of Eringo and Saterion
> roots, of each an ounce and a halfe: beat these very finely,
> and draw them
> with a silver Spoone thorow a haire searce: take of
> Nut-kernels and Almonds
> blanched, of each an ounce, Cocks stones halfe an ounce, all
> steeped in
> honey twelve houres, and then boyled in milke, and beaten and
> mixed with
> the rest: then powder the seeds of red Nettels, of Rockes, of each one
> dram; Plantane seeds halfe a dramme; of the belly and back of
> a fish called
> Scincus marinus, three drammes; of Diasaterion, foure ounces; of
> Cantarides, add a dramme; beat these very finely, and with
> the other powder
> mix it: and so with a pound of fine sugar dissolved in Rosewater, and
> boiled to Sugar againe, mingle the powder and all the rest of
> the things,
> putting in of leafe gold six leaves, of pearle prepared two
> drammes, Oile
> of Cinamon six drops: and being thus done, and well dried,
> put it up in
> your Marmelade boxes, and gild it, and so vse it at your pleasure.
>
> As you see it says Rockes, not Rocket. At first I thought it was a
> description of the nettles, but it says of each one dram, so it's two
> things being described.  If y'all know what Saterion, Scincus marinus,
> Diasaterion, and Cantarides are, feel free to jump in to the
> conversation.
>
> Regards,
>
> Cindy
>
>
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