[Sca-cooks] Drachma Weight

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> Cook figures they'll need a pound Troy of grains total for the banquet.
> Apothecary issues a pound Troy of grains.

Actually, the spices would have been bought by the Steward and issued to
the Cook for the day's recipes.

If the spices were not issued individually for each recipe (and thus
measured by the Steward or his staff), I suspect they would have been
divided up 'by eye'.

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