[Sca-cooks] Poudre Fine / Fine Spices

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Dear SCA Cooks:

In preparation for an  up-coming competition, i had created a word 
processing document with as many references as i could find in the 
cookbooks i have to fine spice powder / poudre fine, what period 
recipes i could find, and my own re-creation.

Of course it, along with many years of SCA-Cooks messages and many 
files of notes on various spice powders disappeared in my hard drive 
death.

I am certainly not asking people to do my research for me, but i 
would appreciate it if people remember where there are references to 
poudre fine / pouldre fine / fine spice powder / fine spices, please 
let me know, i.e., book titles.

I've been spending my last few evenings trying to recreate my 
research and i've found a few references, but any steering towards 
more good sources is appreciated.

(and when i did a Google search for "poudre fine" i got lots of hits 
on French web sites for cosmetics :-)

I'm not so much interested in your re-creations (although i wouldn't 
reject them :-), but in actual period mentions - of course, actual 
period "recipes" for fine spice powder are preferred, or recipes for 
other dishes that call for fine spices (and perhaps suggest which 
spices they mean).

Since i am rather a completist, references to other spice powders 
(poudre blanche/white powder, poudre douce/sweet powder, poudre 
forte/strong powder, hypocras powder, claree powder, etc.) are also 
welcome. But my focuse is "fine spices".

I was so proud of myself that i hadn't waited until the last minute - 
unfortunately, i hadn't printed it out, and now i have to re-create 
it...

Thanks for any gentle guidance,

Anahita