[Sca-cooks] Substitutions... how do we know?

[Antonia Calvo]

Lilinah wrote:

> Fry the chicken with lard and with onions.
> Chop unpeeled almonds and temper them with sour and sweet pomegranate 
> juice and strain them well.
> Mix a little water with sugar and spices.
> Put this to boil for a little with the said chicken, and mix well with 
> a wooden spoon, and put mixed spices above.
> If you don't have almonds [substitute]
> If you don't have pomegranate [substitute]


Almonds... a thickening agent, so I'm guessing crumbs.
Pomegranite... for sourness, so probably verjuice.


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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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