[Sca-cooks] Cardamom?

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> "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."
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa,

Were figs in period smaller than those that grow now? Because all the fresh
figs I've seen are roughly the size of a hen's egg- if someone were to
follow this recipe (which I admit would probably be fairly effective) they'd
look like a chipmunk...

Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

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