FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
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Excerpted from Montagne, Prosper. 1961. Larousee Gastronomique. The Encyclopedia of Food, Wine & Cookery. Crown Publishers, Inc., New York.
is a romatic tablet used in the Far East, to which stomachic properties are attri buted. They are mainly used to freshen and sweeten breath and are made of amber, musc, sandalwood, sweet calamus, galingale, cinnamon, bole, etc.
