[Sca-cooks] FoC

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Thu Jun 4 04:09:30 PDT 2009


But of course it's wrong on Amazon. That's the fun part.

Johnnae
Stefan li Rous wrote:
> But is this an original illustration from the book or something added 
> for this publication?
>
> Either way this is a mis-indexing. "Curry" powder is a 
> mis-understanding by the British of the spice mixes of India, which in 
> any case, is much later than the original publication of Forme of 
> Cury. I don't remember what "Cury" means in medieval English but it 
> has little or nothing to do with the so-called Indian curry mixes.
>
> Stefan 



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