[Sca-cooks] flaming figs

[Stefan li Rous]

Drakey commented:
> Thanks.  Taffy and I almost got thrown out of the Australian National
> Library in Hysterics after finding a period haemaroid cure that involved
> a brandy soaked flaming fig...  I do enjoy finding the little oddities
> of medieval life...

If you aren't joking, please post this bit of info or send it to me
by email. I'm always interested in such little tidbits for the
Florilegium. I'm not sure if we've gotten evidence of period use of
brandy for food flame effects, but this is close.


However, since this involves flaming liquids, I suspect that you should

let someone else do any experiments with this. :-)


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