[Sca-cooks] [Fwd: [LMB] culinairy advice wanted]

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach margali:
>from a different list i am on...i figure if anybody can help, we can=)
>margali

My wife (who cooks and eats soups like this for medicinal purposes) 
tells me that these are both summertime soups for restoring the 
humoral balance (for lack of a better term). Apparently the heat of 
summer builds up hot and dry humors in the body (what medieval 
Europeans would have considered choleric); these are intended to 
restore the balance.

If eating these for the flavor alone, use a chicken. If for medicinal 
purposes, pork bones, such as neck bones with a little meat on them.

Adamantius

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>I just did lastminute Christmass shopping and bought for my father
>two assorted soup mixtures from a Chinese shop.
>
>He likes cooking and trying out stuff so I hope he'll enjoy it, BUT
>there are no instructions with it. Is anyone here in the know what to
>do with the following two assortments?
>(all the ingredients are packed seperately)
>
>
>the first contains:
>fox nuts (chessnuts in dutch and german list)
>lotus seeds
>dioscores (knotty Yam according to the german list)
>radix codonopris
>hoantchy
>Boxthom fruit (meddler berries)
>longan
>
>the second contains:
>
>barley,
>lotus seeds
>nuts (fox nuts)
>lilly bulb,
>longan,
>dried vegetables
>
>
>Any sugestions?
>
>Rowena
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