[Sca-cooks] Cardamom?

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> I'm just curious, because there are so many other Asian spices that
> were used in Europe that are no longer, such as long pepper,
> galangal, and grains of paradise. Why not cardamom?

Hm.. there's that reference to it in Gilbertus Anglicus, but I don't know
what the original looks like, I got the translation off Mostly Medieval:

"And let him use these pills that are good for all manner of stinking of
the mouth: Take of cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and mace, eight drams; of red
sandlewood, ten drams; of quibibis, seven drams; of cardamom, five drams.
Mix them with the juice of mint and make pills of the size of a fig. And
let him to have two of them under either side of his tongue at once."

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