[Sca-cooks] 13th century bread

[Craig Jones.]

>Drake wrote:
>>Kylie,
>>
>>If you come across any Rock Rose essence in your travels could you
>>let me know?
>>I want to do the Cow's Meat recipe for Anthimus.  An ingredient asked for is
>>"costi" which has been translated by some as Costmary, but my gut feeling is
>>that the ingredient is Costus, Rock Rose essence.
>
>That's labdanum, which came up in a translation for Sieggy a few weeks ago...

Ah cool, that's in one of my herb books somewhere (I'm not that familiar with
it though...)

>>Also,  the A Soup for the Qan has an appendix (written by Charles Perry) on
>>Islamic Bread and Grain products which might help.  I could bring
>>the book down
>>the next time I'm in Stormhold.
>
>Aargh. Too bad the arfing book is SOOOO expensive. I'd buy it for
>around $50 - i might even choke up $100, but $225!!! Sorry, i just
>can't do it.

My wife found mine 2nd hand from a Seattle bookstore for XMAS.  Even then, she
wont admit to me how much she paid for it...

Drakey.

>
>I want info in period Islamic breads! other than what's in "Medieval
>Arabic Cookery", which i do have. Guess i'll have to ILL it...
>
>Anahita
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