[Sca-cooks] Ambargris Pudding & Other Perfumed Foods

[Aruvqan Myers]

I believe the musk used as a flavorant in many foods is synthetic, though I
did buy some crystalized musk from a source in IIRC India. [I have an odd
liking for musk lifesavers and musk sticks from Australia still.] In
addition to animal based musk there are some plant based ones. My google-fu
sucks this morning, all I can find right now is mention of the musk candy. I
do know the candy I have is synthetic musk.

And as to the sausage issue, I do remember in my F&R Apicius they mention
wrapping the lucanian sausage in caul fat membrane. I flipped through it
virtually online a bit but could not find a reference to stuffing it into an
intestine, though honestly I can see an argument for using it as you simply
do not waste a resource if you are poor and food is scarce. [And also the
issue of you need something to restrain sausage if you are to hang it in the
smoke to cure...]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Are foods perfumed today, although deer musk has its limits, the plant
> could be in use? Examples of recipes?
> Putting food in animal intestines is commonplace but is putting desserts
> into them English or does this come from Mediterranean countries as my
> recipe indicates?
> Suey
> On 9/20/11 7:08 PM, sca-cooks-request at lists.**ansteorra.org<sca-cooks-request at lists.ansteorra.org>wrote:
>
>>
>> Did Latins at anytime stuff puddings into sausage casings?
>> Suey
>>
>
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