[Sca-cooks] A Dizzle of Honey

[David Friedman]

>Ok I think understand almond milk is a cover up thanks so much for 
>explaining it but murri and the rest?
>Suey

One of the sources the authors used was the Manuscrito Anonimo, the 
13th c. Andalusian cookbook that I got Charles Perry to translate 
many years ago. My guess is that they tried to fit some of its 
recipes to the information they had, in order to reconstruct 
plausible guesses at the Jewish recipes. Hence murri.

Almond milk is common in medieval European cooking, of course. One 
thing it could be used for is as a milk substitute on fast days. So 
perhaps using it on a non-fast day would be seen as suspicious? Seems 
like s stretch.
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