[Sca-cooks] Nostrodamus' jam recipes

[Johnna Holloway]

Michel de Nostredame  was a doctor and apothecary of course. We may know the name for all those awful pseudo-documentaries about the prophecies or predictions, but yes he wrote a work on confections. 

You might like my article
Holloway, Johnna. : "The Confitures of Nostradamus." Tournaments Illuminated. Fall 2004. Issue 152.  pp. 18-20.

The website 
Repertoire Chronologique Nostradamus
has copies of 
his books online.
  Excellent et moult utile opuscule à tous/ nécessaire qui désirent avoir connoissan/ ce de plusieurs exquises receptes divisé/ en deux parties./ La première traicte de diverses façons/ de fardemens et senteurs pour illustrer et/ embelir la face./ La seconde nous montre la façon et/ manière de faire confitures de plusieurs/ sortes... Nouvellement composé par Maistre/ Michel de NOSTREDAME docteur/ en medecine...
Authour: Nostradamus
Description: 238 pages
Published: Lyon, A. Volantcan be seen as
http://www.propheties.it/bibliotheque/1539-1567/1555-003%20Nostradamus,%20Excellent%20&%20moult%20utile/index.html

Or see 
Traité des fardemens et confitures. English translation copyright (c) Peter Lemesurier 2000 http://www.propheties.it/nostradamus/1555opuscole/opuscole.html

 Johnnae

On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Stephanie Ross wrote:

> First time I ever heard of this - Nostradamus' "Treatise on Makeup and
> Jam", 1555.
> 
> http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=jI0SRi-6yJEC&oi=fnd&pg=PA1&dq=nostradamus+treatise+on+makeup+and+jam&ots=fZlNUOolHv&sig=SFEFFbvy_njVBI7CzES9UnO0fE0&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=nostradamus&f=false
> 
> AEschwynne