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Cameline Sauce
Tournai-style Cameline sauce (6 quantities). Original: "Cameline. Note that at Tournai, to make cameline they pound ginger, cinnamon, saffron, ...
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Rosewater from Plat's Delights for Ladies
TO MAKE RED ROSEWATER. Take a glass flask and half fill it with good rosewater then fill it up with red roses, that is petals of young roses from which the ...
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Hemp & Nettle: two fiber/food plants of the middle ages
Both hemp and nettle fibers were used to make cloth, as well as being used for food ... from the etymology of the terms for hemp in Indo-Germanic Languages. ...
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Bathing: A history
Feb 8, 2007 ... A Short History of Bathing before 1601: Washing, Baths, and Hygeine in Medieval and Renaissance Europe, with sidelights on other customs ...
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Hair Care Recipes from Medieval/Renaissance Times
How to colour the head or beard into a Chestnut colour in half an houre. ... Anoint the head with this oil. It makes the hair long and black. ... and a fourth of linseed, and a fourth of barberry, and a (fourth) of calamus gum, ...
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Hemp & Nettle: two fiber/food plants of the middle ages
Both hemp and nettle fibers were used to make cloth, as well as being used for food ... from the etymology of the terms for hemp in Indo-Germanic Languages. ...
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Spices from the East
Legend said that black pepper was blackened by fire in the harvesting process. ... Spices were so precious that they were kept under lock and key-- in ...
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Making Medieval Style Scented Oils and Waters
Jul 29, 2008 ... Scented perfumes made with an oil or alcohol base, ... of 1639 contains this recipe, reprinted in Rohde's The Scented Garden. ...
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Herbal Sleep Pillow from Ram's Little Dodoen.
Redaction of a medieval / renaissance recipe calls for a sleep pillow made with mint, cloves and rosepetals.
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A selection of herbs used in medieval times
Mint (Mentha species), of all kinds were used in food and medicine. ... Herbs for the Medieval Household: for cooking, healing and divers uses. ...
