Heart to Hearth Cookery

A Loot of Ginger and Cinnamon

The Dutch receipt (recipe) for To make a Pear-taert requires Ginger, Cinnamon of each a half loot.  As Peter G. Rose defines in her book The Sensible Cook: Dutch Foodways in the Old and the New World, a loot is approximately 14 grams.  My inner weight of my weight set is 13 grams so the picture of my balance scales show both the ginger and cinnamon being weighed together with my 13 gram weight as the balance.  A loot is lots of spice!

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