[Sca-cooks] No Sugar in 10th Century??

[ruadh]

could the scribe have make their own changes due to personal preferences ??
and where people used to *that much* of a powder ? like Cajun, I can't get
near the stuff. Others say the "developed" a taste for it. but, (e.g. 1 LB
of cloves in a pound of meat)  Uck , rather let my sheep's Clove[n] hoofs
dance on my tongue first.

> references to 'spice powder', 'strong spice powder', 'powder' without
further
> instructions seems to lend credence to this position. As does the
existence
> of wandering spice grinders.
>
> In my viewpoint, the biggest argument against the use of large quantities
of
> spices in a given recipe (e.g. 1 LB of cloves in a pound of meat) is
simply
> the fact that the resulting dish is inedible.
>
> Ras
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