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Poudre Forte & Poudre Douce

To cook recipes going back to medieval times you come across a few things that we no longer use in our modern kitchen. Poudre Forte and Poudre Douce are two common spice mixes that permeate throughout the Feast of Ice and Fire cookbook and you have to have them if you want the real experience of those flavors. So I went and had a look at the spices needed to make these two mixes and I found…