[Sca-cooks] Le Menagier Fine Powder

[James Prescott]

>> Another Spice Mixture from the 1607 Thresor de Sante. snipped
>> Again, does she give the original French? It looks to me like she is using the recipe James sent, but is substituting cardamom for grains of paradise. And in my experience, since i have access to both grains and cardamom, they are not all that similar. 

As noted in my post on Cardamom, the Latin 'cardamomum', at least 
for the time of the Avignon popes, was apparently (in 1982) ambiguous 
as to whether it meant cardamom or grains (maniguette).


Thorvald