[Sca-cooks] Martino recipe

[Johnna Holloway]

So you are looking for the spices that might be found in "with salt and 
good spices that have been mixed together"?
Sometimes it helps to look at another version of the same text, so I 
have been looking at the Octavo edition.
Gillian Riley uses the words "nice spices."
She notes that "His recipes take quite a bit for granted,... and he does 
not feel the need to specify
what he means by bone spezie (mild spices), spezie dolce (sweet
spices), or spezie forte (strong spices)."

I suspect in fact that the unspecified spices should have been more 
along the lines of 
pepper, cloves, and cinnamon or cassia and not herbs. (I know cinnamon 
and fish are not
thought of together these days.)
This version of Martino allows for keyword
searching so I can in fact look for an ingredient throughout the manuscript.
For example--- Parsley, marjoram, and mint are specified for the open 
tart of pigeon or fowl and marjoram
is again specified in the veal olives and veal meatballs.
I have to wonder if he'd wanted marjoram with the fish, if he wouldn't 
perhaps have specified marjoram.

BUT if the recipe worked for you and the marjoram worked with the  
tilapia, then I'd certainly count
the entire venture a great success.

Johnnae

Carole Smith wrote:
> I really like Martino.  I just tried his Dried Pies Made with Whole Fish on p.89.snipped
> I used dried parsley flakes, powdered marjoram and thyme 
> under, between, and over the fish. snipped A question for those of you more familiar with Martino: What spices should I have used?
>
> Cordelia Toser
>
>
> --- On Thu, 1/15/09, Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Amazon lets you look inside:
> http://www.amazon.com/Art-Cooking-Cookery-California-Studies/dp/0520232712
> Selene