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So, in all my copious free time, I re-worked my extended recipe booklet that is part of the historical Venetian spice mix set that I make for largess- because I think the previous one I made is on my dead desk top machine and I need it for this weekend! Here's the new table of contents:
Page number: Recipe
1 Sweet spices for enough things good and fine
2 Fine spices for all things & Spices bl...ack and strong
3 Ambrosino good and perfect and such (sweet & sour chicken w/fruit)
5 Marvelous and good walnut bread
7 Fantastic common ravioli with herbs
9 Capons or hens stuffed
11 Hens with fennel fantastic
13 Hens with fennel in another way.
14 Broth of chickens (pullets)
15 Bramagere. / Blancmange (chicken & rice)
17 Ambroyno (a sweet food) (Chicken in spicy onion, almond sauce)
18 Cisame (Sweet/sour dish) of whichever fish you want.
19 Fantastic tart of prawns.
20 Little broth for fish
21 Mushrooms
22 Tart of mushrooms good and most perfect
23 Tart of garlic, etc.
24 Herb omelet in lent
25 "Agliata", roasted garlic sauce
26 Good relish for chickens
& Sauce thickened with eggs good with partridge
27 Carmeline sauce for capon
It still seems puny to me. :( I still need to hand bind it in either parchment or leather, I haven't decided which.
I've also been fascinated by historical Italian games. In addition to getting a repllica copy of the Visconti deck and learning how to play appropriate card games, I have beene looking into board/ dice games. There is a TON of images of extant boards, many of them variations on The Game of the Goose, but I was having trouble finding the rules until one of my awesome librarian friends hooked me up! Here's one of the boards I'm thinking of re-creating for largess, There are printed, hand colored extant examples of this exact board, and I'm thinking of coloring it, and laminating it with the rules on the back and including some dice to make a set for largess. Is this something anyone but me might be interested in?
