[Sca-cooks] Documentation Help

[Daniel Myers]

On Mar 4, 2005, at 11:25 AM, Phlip wrote:
>
> I think she might be referring to the tendency of some recipes to use
> prayers for timing different processes. I know we've discussed them, 
> but I
> can't think of any specific ones off hand. Adamantius? I think you 
> were in
> that discussion.

Ah, missed that.  Her saying "for ease of remembrance" made me think 
she meant memorizing the recipe or technique.

I knew I'd seen at least one instance of this, and after a brief search 
I found it.


From:  Libro di cucina/ Libro per cuoco, Louise Smithson, (trans.)
http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/libro.html

CXXVII To candy fresh almonds, peaches, walnuts that are perfect, 
neither too hard nor too soft etc.
Take the said items, peel them and put holes in them, the walnuts want 
six holes each, the peach pits six, the almonds four.  These should be 
put in water, the water should be changed every day until the nuts are 
sweet, then boil them in water, the walnuts should be boiled for half 
an hour, the peach pits and almonds from when they start to boil for a 
quarter of an hour.  Then put them to dry in the shade and in the wind 
in a fruit basket under a lattice for three days, the peach pis and the 
almonds for two.  Then fill each hole with gloves, cinnamon and 
ginger.  Then let them boil in honey for the time it takes to recite 
six “Our Fathers”.  Take them out of this honey and boil them in fresh 
honey until that honey is cooked.  Then powder fine spices above the 
honey and put them in a closed pharmacy pot in the sun for the space of 
five days.  The peach pits should be made the same way except that they 
should be boiled in the first honey until it is cooked, there is no 
need to change them to fresh.  Note that the almonds will not last past 
the middle of April in a hot location, because their skin will become 
too hard.

- Doc


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