| Description Of Item | Ingredients listed in the recipe are: aniseeds, fennel seeds, coriander seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace [nutmeg tree’s seed’s aril], galangal, sugar, and wheat.
It instructs to make everything into a powder and mix it with wheat to bake a cake, and eat it ‘first and last’.
Recipe is marginalia in library copy of Nicholas Culpeper, A Physical Directory (1650) – library reference S10.22.
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