[Sca-cooks] What Not to Eat

[Susan Fox-Davis]

I concur.  Poorly-executed hash brownies really taste awful.

A water extract of cannabis may not use the ingredient to its best
advantage.  As I recall, Alice B. Toklas recommended the resin be simmered
in butter, which was then strained and used in a standard brownie recipe.
The active ingredients may be more fat-soluble than water soluble.

Selene 


> Sounds like haschisch. Don't know much about it's history beyond the usual
> hearsay, but I would agree the odor can be incommodating. Not to mention the
> actual effects of consumption on the 'respectful, decorous' behavior of the
> said young men.
> 
> Petru
> 
> 
> Selon Robin Carroll-Mann <rcmann4 at earthlink.net>:
> 
>> I was hunting through the _Arte de Cortar_, a 1423 Spanish carving
>> manual, and came across something unexpected.  The author is discussing
>> the ideal habits and qualities of young men who are to serve the King at
>> table.  They should be clean, respectful, decorous, etc.  Then he says,
>> "Concerning this, they must keep themselves from things contrary to the
>> said conditions and customs; especially, from eating garlic, onions,
>> leeks, and cilantro, shallots, and the electuary of hemp leaf, which the
>> Moors call alhaxixa."
>> 
>> An electuary is a medical compound, made into a paste with honey, or
>> with sugar and water.  (De Nola has a recipe for an electuary of sour
>> cherries, meant to stimulate the appetite of invalids.)  The 1729 RAE
>> dictionary says that hemp leaves have an "abominable odor".  So, is
>> electuary of hemp a cause of bad breath?
>> 
>> --