[Sca-cooks] Duke's powder

[Terry Decker]

As a guess, by 1529 the Portuguese were in direct trade with India, cinnamon
may have been harder to obtain than cloves.  One would need to find the cost
of the spices at the time to move that further than mere speculation.

Another possibility is the author preferred cinnamon to cloves.

Bear

>
>What I can't understand is the part about leaving out the cloves for
>the lord. I assume that this is saying the higher rank should not
>have the cloves or should have more cinnamon instead but why? I thought
>both were expensive, imported spices.
>
>These recipes give quantities, but they sure show a wide variation
>in ingredients and quantities, while using the same name for the
>mixture.
>
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>THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra