[Sca-cooks] hair sieve

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Olwen the Odd wrote:
>
> I ran across "hair sieve" in a recipe out of Robert de Nola, Libro de Coxina
> (Spanish 1525) for Poluora De Duque--Duke's Powder and wondering what a hair
> sieve was I went into my search engine and among other things came up with
> this from the Fanny Farmer Cookbook.  BYW Cindy is hair sieve in the
> glossery?   Olwen

It probably should be; it turns up occasionally in English medieval
recipes, which instruct you to put the food through an hersive, or some
such. Hieatt and Butler saw fit to include it in their glossary.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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