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chained_bear commented on the word pliris
"Perceval arrives at the Grail Castle and i served peppered venison followed by candied fruit, nutmeg, cloves, Alexandrian 'gingerbread,' and sugared medicines (electuaries) along with after-dinner cordials such as pliris, a concoction of musk and camphor."
Paul Freedman, <i>Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination</i> (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 24.
November 27, 2017