[Sca-cooks] Another knife question

[kattratt]

Sorry this is late in replying I have been busy....
But ya know I am not sure which is scarier... that you found something 
in the Florilegium or that you actually looked....
Yikes...
Nichola


Stefan li Rous wrote:

>>
>> People/student/teachers come in and ask Stefan for the references in the
>> florilegium for left handed medieval gum chewers or whatever obscure
>> thing they want to know about the middle ages that is stored on his
>> site...
>
> From time to time, folks have played the "stump Stefan and the 
> Florilegium" game. I thought you might have finally succeeded here, 
> until I did a search. Nothing specific on left handed gum chewers, but 
> these files do talk a bit about period equivalents of chewing gum:
> sumac-msg         (15K) 12/29/99    Period uses of sumac. Identiying it.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/PLANTS/sumac-msg.html
> gums-resins-msg   (32K)  8/31/03    Period use of plant gums and 
> resins. Myrrh,
>                                        mastic, frankincense, camphor.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/PLANTS/gums-resins-msg.html
> aspic-msg         (48K)  9/ 7/04    Notes on aspic, a meat-base gelatin.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/aspic-msg.html
>
>> In return they have to teach Stefan something...
>> So you get this kind of scenario... Stefan I need this info... type type
>> type here it is on my site....
>> Thank You Stefan... here is how to cook a boiled peanut/ use a knife/
>> parboil yaks milk... whatever.
>
> Some of that isn't medieval European. However, my interests are 
> wide-ranging...
>
>