[Sca-cooks] Bronze Cookware

[wheezul at canby.com]

> If/When I hear more from Hampton Court, I'll pass it on.  At this point
> it sounds as if they use the pots and don't have any problem with lead.
>   A subsequent post by a non-Hampton Court cook posited that period
> bronze cookware could have lead content up to 20 or 30 percent.  That
> would make the current 5 percent fairly low.
>
> Alys K.
> --
> Elise Fleming
> alysk at ix.netcom.com
> http://home.netcom.com/~alysk/

Wasn't the real concern verdigris poisoning from copper?

Katherine