[Sca-cooks] Re: On Line Glossary

[Elise Fleming]

Query and one response:

> >amber of grece, ambergris
>> I think my memory's not working right, because something tells
>> me this is a whale by-product, and that doesn't seem right
somehow.

>Nothing wrong with your memory.  It's from whales, and is used
primarily
>as an ingredient in perfumes.

It was also used in confections in late period - Tudor (IIRC),
Stuart, Jacobean, along with musk.  I've seen it as an ingredient in
sugar/gum paste.

Alys Katharine