[Sca-cooks] QUESTION ABOUT MACE
Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Sun Oct 13 16:31:53 PDT 2002
Also sprach Heleen Greenwald:
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>Clear DayI made a Regency recipe for Shabbat, last. It was chicken
>friccase. It called for mace, which I had. As I'm sure y'all know,
>the mace was in (almost) little sheets, not being ground mace. I
>tried to crumble it up as best I could but aparently I didn't do
>such a good job because some of the mouthfulls of friccase tasted
>VERY stongly of mace.
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>How do people on list crumble up their mace? Do you grind it? grate
>it or what?
>
>Many thanks!
>Phillipa
Grinding in a spice grinder or mortar seems to work, but the period
solution seems to be simply to eat around the whole blades (like the
bay leaf in the stew), or remove them before serving, possibly using
a little cloth bag to assist...
Adamantius
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