[Sca-cooks] The mystery soap ingredient in context

[Lorenz Wieland]

johnna holloway wrote:
> The original English translation of this recipe from the 1558 edition
> of Alessio gives this recipe slightly differently:
>
> Take Aluminis catini is what the earlier edition says.

Any ideas on "aluminis catini?"  My dictionary gives catini as "washbowls,"
but that hardly seems helpful in context...

-Lorenz