[Sca-cooks] Spice Blends

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 08:08  PM, James Prescott wrote:

> The Vatican and BN mss have nothing directly for "Pouder Douce".
> Menagier (trans. Power) has a recipe embedded within the recipe
> for "Hippocras":
>
> Take four ounces of very fine cinnamon, two ounces of fine
> cassia flowers, an ounce of selected Mecca ginger, an ounce
> of grains of paradise, and a sixth [of an ounce] of nutmeg and
> galingale combined.  Crush them all together.  Take a good
> half ounce of this powder and eight ounces of sugar [(which
> thus makes Sweet Powder)].

Okay, so not having seen Le Menagier in French, are we to assume the 
Powers translation as "The Duke's Powder" is erroneous? Certainly this 
version makes some sense. What is the phrase in French?

Adamantius
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