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<div>At 08:38 -0700 2003-06-18, lilinah@earthlink.net wrote:</div>
<div>> I sent this last night at 6:07 PDT, but it never showed up
in any of<br>
> the Digests i get...<br>
><br>
><br>
> In reviewing old messages, i find several times comments to the
effect that<br>
> "The Viandier de Taillevent lists proportions of spices for
Pouder<br>
> Forte, Pouder Douce and Spice Pouder"<br>
><br>
> I cannot find my copy of the second volume of Cariadoc's
cookbook<br>
> collection, which may have Taillevent...<br>
></div>
<div>> So, can anyone fill this in? What are those proportions and
which spices?</div>
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<div>Not, I believe, in Viandier itself. I provide some recipes
from</div>
<div>other sources in my edition, and that could be what the
writers</div>
<div>were referring to.</div>
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<div>The Vatican and BN mss have nothing directly for "Pouder
Forte". I</div>
<div>believe that it is the same as "Spice Powder".</div>
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<div>Pichon and Vicaire, in their transcription of the Vatican ms,
offer</div>
<div>on page 26 a recipe for "Spice Powder":</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Grind ginger (4 parts), cassia (3 1/2
parts), nutmeg (2 parts),</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">pepper (1 1/2 parts), long pepper, cloves,
grains of paradise</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">and galingale (1 part each).</font></div>
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<div>The Vatican and BN mss have nothing directly for "Pouder
Douce". </div>
<div>Menagier (trans. Power) has a recipe embedded within the
recipe</div>
<div>for "Hippocras":</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Take four ounces of very fine cinnamon, two
ounces of fine</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">cassia flowers, an ounce of selected Mecca
ginger, an ounce</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">of grains of paradise, and a sixth [of an
ounce] of nutmeg and</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">galingale combined. Crush them all
together. Take a good</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">half ounce of this powder and eight ounces
of sugar [(which</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">thus makes Sweet Powder)].</font></div>
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<div>Thorvald</div>
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