[Sca-cooks] medicinal recipies

[Sydney Walker Freedman]

I most definitely will.  Thanks!

> I have not tried this one but I have worked with edible camphor.  make
> sure
> you get it from a good East Indian shop and tell them it is to eat.  They
> will make sure you get the right stuff. There are several different ways
> to
> process campor, and some should not be ingested.
>
> aibhilin
>
>> Greetings!
>>
>>     I found this recipe in An Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the
>> Thirteenth Century.  Has anyone experimented with it?  (I'm currently
>> collecting medicinal foods from the 12th-14th centuries.)
>>
>> This is given to feverish people as a food and takes the place of
>> medicine. Take sweet, peeled almonds and pound them fine. Then extract
>> their milk with a sieve or clean cloth, until it becomes like milk. Add
>> pomegranate and tart apple juice, pear juice, juice of quince and of
>> roasted gourd, whatever may be available of these. Prepare them like the
>> juice squeezed from the almonds and like the mixture of white sugar. Put
>> in a glazed earthenware tinjir and light a gentle fire under it. After
>> boiling, add some dissolved starch paste and when it thickens, put
>> together rose oil and fresh oil and light under it a gentle fire until
>> it
>> thickens. Then take off the fire and take it out. If the stomach is
>> weak,
>> add rosewater mixed with camphor.
>>
>> Pax Christi,
>> Lady Cecilia de Cambrige
>>
>>
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Pax Christi,
Sydney