FW: [Sca-cooks] Paper twists of spice (Was spice storage)

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> >Of course one would bring a carrier of some sort for one's purchases,
> >but I really have a hard time imagining people having a supply of little
> >bags to take to market in case their spices were in-- and you can hardly
> >just dump your grains of paradise and your cardamom in the bottom of
> >your basket higgeldy-piggeldy.
> 
> How do we know that this isn't where powder-forte and powder-douce came 
> from?

Well, that would mean the powder forte and powder douce was made at 
home, rather than being bought at the spicers or apothecaries' and we 
know that it was often bought at the apothecaries'.

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