[Sca-cooks] need help identify these items

[CorwynWdwd at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/17/2002 6:29:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
dubghaille at wireweb.net writes:

> I'm try to identify  what orace and cypres would be.  I suspect they are
> herbs of some type, in which case, knowing a common or modern name would be
> what I need.

I'd take a stab in the dark and say  "orace" is orris root, a scent fixative
made from the root of an iris plant.

Cypres COULD be cypress, but that I'm not so sure of...

Corwyn


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