[Sca-cooks] Experimentation results for Amidono d' amido

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Raphaella DiContini
<raphaellad at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Here's the translation I've been working from to start things off:
> I. (1) Amidono of starch {Almond milk pudding}
> If you want to make starch dish for 12 people, take two pounds of
> almonds and one pound of amido/starch. And half of sugar and take ½ of
> peeled pine nuts and half a quarter (1/8th) of cloves

Have you considered the possibility that the recipe means 1/8th of an
*ounce* of cloves?  This wouldn't be the first recipe I've seen where
a change of measurement unit is not specified.

Brighid ni Chiarain