saffron

Ingredients

berberry, nard, liquorice, chate melon, bamboo chalk, purslane, rose, saffron, starch, clean lac

Preparation Steps

Original Recipe Text

Recipe for berberry pastilles: Take berberry and clean nard, stick of liquorice clean of the black ones (2 dirhams each), peeled seeds of chate melon (2 dirhams), bamboo chalk, seeds of purslane (1 and 1/3 dirhams each), rose (4 dirhams crushed), saffron, starch, and clean lac (p. 509). Saffron is also used in a dressing for the liver: 4 dirhams of Roman absinthian wormwood, sandalwood, rose, barley flour, and broad bean flour (2 dirhams each), betel palm (1 dirham), saffron (7 dirhams), and camphor (0.25 dirham), kneaded with coriander and chicory water (p. 510).

Evidence

"9. crushed 4 dirhams, and saffron"

Remarks

Saffron is utilized in multiple recipes within T-S Ar.45.40, serving both in the production of pastilles and in a complex topical dressing for the liver (p. 509-510).