[Sca-cooks] Kanz: First olive recipe
Galefridus Peregrinus
galefridus at optimum.net
Fri Sep 27 08:28:23 PDT 2013
I've only gotten about a sentence or so into the first olive cure in the
Kanz al-Fawa'id, but that one sentence is very interesting. I've looked
at dozens of olive cures from antiquity to the 14th century, and found
only one that came even close to using lye. All of the rest have used
something else to accomplish the cure. But this first recipe from the
Kanz calls for lime -- not the fruit, but the mineral. I'm pretty
excited about this discovery -- hopefully I'll have time to complete the
translation over the next few days and see where it goes!
-- Galefridus
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