[Sca-cooks] May be a bit OT, but does have to do with herbs and such

[Stefan li Rous]

Anne asked:

<<< I just received something called a Friendship Ball? http://www.thetwigg 
  ery.com/cgi/ shopper.cgi? preadd=action& key=A002- AF-CFBALL

It is just like that one. I think it would do well for one of those  
"smell this instead" balls the ladies carried around with them?for  
whenever the ordinary smells around them got to be too much.? I know  
they were filled with something pleasant to smell.?
?
Anyone have period recipes for such fillings?? Or ideas on what to  
make?? I have lavender and such.? I even have some beeswax if that  
could/should be used to hold the ingredients together as the holes are  
fairly large and whatever I fill it with will need to be either in a  
fabric bag or bound together in some way.>>>

I can't seem to get the link you gave to work. Even taking out the  
spaces. So I'm not entirely sure what you've found, although it sounds  
like a pomander.

There is this file in the PERSONAL CARE section of the Florilegium:
perfumes-msg      (36K)  9/19/02    Medieval perfumes and pomanders.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PERSONAL/perfumes-msg.html
Perfumes-bib      (20K) 12/26/00    "Perfumes Bibliography" by Nora  
Siri Bock.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PERSONAL/Perfumes-bib.html

Stefan
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