[Sca-cooks] Cardamom?

[Lorenz Wieland]

Phlip wrote:

>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...
>  
>
I'll take another tack:

Which variety of figs would have been correct for this text, and would 
they have been more likely fresh or dried?  Out here in Caid we mostly 
see the very large Black Mission figs, which are a descendent of Common 
Turkish Brown figs via Spain, I believe, and probably not very similar 
to what would have been meant by the author.  Some of the modern 
European varieties like Celeste/Malta or Negronne would be more 
palatable pill sizes, I'd think.

-Lorenz