[Sca-cooks] Orange Flower Water

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

The  Manual de mujeres en el cual se contienen muchas y diversas recetas muy 
buenas appears to call for orange-flower water in a marchpane. I didn't 
do the translation, though. Here;s the original of the whole text:
http://www.geocities.com/karen_larsdatter/manual.htm

> I don't like to jump to conclusions. It would be like the mayonnaise 
> dust-up recently on another SCA food list. Just because a culture has 
> the ingredients for something doesn't mean they made it. So i won't 
> assume that just because the Arabs have the technique and technology 
> for distilling, just because they distilled rosewater, i won't assume 
> they distilled orange flower water. Could they? Sure. Did they? I 
> don't know.
> 
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