[Sca-cooks] online glossary

[johnna holloway]

Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
> > Duke's Powder ==
> See Le Menagier's hippocras recipe: he says the spice mixture can be
> mixed with sugar and added to wine, and that you can buy the spice
> mixture already sweetened, which is the Duke's Powder. It's been
> suggested that this is in fact a reference to Powder Douce, or Sweet
> Powder (or perhaps simply a sweet powder bearing no relation to the
> English spice mix by this name). HTH,> Adamantius
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Nicole Crosley-Holland in Living and Dining in Medieval Paris
which is an examination of Le Menagier de Paris says that
"pouldre de duc" "comes from the Catalan treatise Sent Sovi;
polvora de duch, or powder of sweetness according to Thibaut-
Comelade (262, 121) who gives the components: fine sugar, ginger,
cinnamon, pepper, clove, mace, nutmeg and saffron. ...The
Menagier probably heard of this powder when he served in
Languedoc and transcribed as duc the sound duch." [pages159-160]

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