[Sca-cooks] Finding Recipes for spices

[a5foil]

Hi,

As others have said, some of the medieval cookbooks available today have
ingredient index entries that list all the dishes that use a particular
ingredient, including spices. Not all of the cookbooks provide this kind of
index, but some do. That is about as close to what you want as you are
likely to find.

To narrow your search:
- For using sumac, focus on Middle Eastern, Persian, Lebanese or Turkish
cuisines.
- For pine nuts, focus on Mediterranean cuisines, like Italian or Spanish,
and to a lesser degree, French.
- You will find galingale and grains of paradise mentioned in every Western
European cuisine, so take your pick.
- For powder fort, specifically, check English and French sources. The
Spanish equivalent from the 14th to 16th centuries was often referred to as
'salsa fina' - generally a strong blend of spices including ginger, cloves,
cinnamon, pepper and other warm spices, like powder fort.

Good luck,
Thomas Longshanks

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Unto the list does Muirghen send greetings,
At the risk of catching a flaming arrow between the eyes, I have what I
believe to be a reasonable question.  I wish to find recipes that use some
of the more interesting spices that I am acquiring but as far as I know
there is no method of cross referencing by spice used.  Can anyone suggest
an approach?
    The spices in question are:
        sumac, nigella, pine nuts, galengale (got that to do the galengale
mead), grains of paradise and poudre forte.

Thanks

Muirghen
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