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This is an excerpt from Libro di cucina / Libro per cuoco
(Italy, 14th/15th c. - Louise Smithson, trans.)
The original source can be found at Louise Smithson's website

CXIX - Dish called lemony. To make this dish for 12 people, take 6 fat hens, 6 capons and three ounces of fine spices and three of almonds and three of fine sugar and 25 dates and take 12 oranges that are well juicy and half a pound of prunes and take the hens / capons that you have and put to boil, when they are cooked take a pound of lard clean and well strained and put to fry the hens / capons and when they are fried these things powder with the said spices and the sugar and almonds that you have well washed and ground and tempered with the broth of the capons that is thin (fat less) well strained and put this milk to boil in a pipkin for it. When it boils put in the said spices in quantity and then put the prunes well washed and then put in the dates well washed or make tow parts of each (do the prunes and dates separately) and then put in the saffron tempered. When it is boiled this dish, put in the capons and the oranges and it should be thick and heavy with spices and sweet with sugar; put the capons on a dish and the relish in a bowl.

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17 LEMON DISH (Libre del Coch)