[Sca-cooks] Duke's powder

[Stefan li Rous]

Bear replied to me with:
> 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.

Okay, I think this is the most likely reason. However, the cinnamon already
shows up in the recipes for both classes. I would think you'd show more
power by have a multitiude of exotic spices. I had forgotten about this
being a very late period recipe though and trade would have affected things.

> Another possibility is the author preferred cinnamon to cloves.

Then why use the cloves at all in this case.

> 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.
> >--
> >THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra

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