[Sca-cooks] medicinal recipies

[Terry Decker]

The Arabic usage (that little of it I have been able to find) and the 
derivation of camphor into English suggest that the camphor called for in 
the recipes is indeed camphor from Cinnamomum camphora.

Having no access to Huici-Miranda's translation, I can't comment on "Camphor 
from Basil."

Bear

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Whether camphor called for in the Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook of the
Thirteenth Century is from camphor resin or from a tree related to
cinnamon or camphor from elecampane is too technical for the Huici or
Perry translations as no explanation is provided except in in Huici´s
translation of the recipe "Camphor from Basil," see CXVI on page 141.
Susan