[Sca-cooks] Reasonable substitution for musk question.

[Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au]

Well, I do think it would work as a breath freshner.

But here is something odd. I recently picked up some incense from my local Greek wholesaler.  It is labelled something like "Muscolivano".  It looks a bit like frankincense in that it is in lumps, although not as crystaline as frankincense. If soaked in hot water for a while it goes sort of gummy. The thing is, it is a kind of candy pink inside, and smells just like musk (sweet musk) and even tastes (in a not-sweet fashion) like musk.

It looks like some sort of plant gum; maybe it is from the plant that I posted earlier or something... I really don't know. But I doubt very strongly that it is of animal origin.  Maybe THIS is the elusive not-animal-musk!

Kiriel


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Here I am trying to figure out how to approximate musk in a recipe for a
mouth-freshener from Trotula:

"I aswa  certain Saracen woman liberate many people with this medicine.
Take  little bit of laurel leaves, and a little bit of musk, and let her
hold it under the tongue before bad break is percieved in her. When I
recommend that day and night and especially when she has to have
sexual intercourse with anyone she hold these things under her tongue."

Do you think soaking a fresh bay leaf in orange flower water would give
the same sort of effect?