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Severus Snape ([personal profile] alt_severus) wrote2013-08-22 08:57 pm

Order Only: Private Message to Sirius Black

Whilst I was working this afternoon, and thinking aloud, Miss Granger said something that prompted a realisation. I cannot call the page we were working from to mind closely enough: when speaking of the verbena, does the receipt call for "1â…“Ê’" leaf of verbena, or "1â…“fÊ’" leaf of verbena?

If it is the latter, or could possibly be read as such: the author may intend for you to pulverise the leaf, and add only the juices.
alt_sirius: (Hmph)

[personal profile] alt_sirius 2013-08-23 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Lessons on life with a toddler: Bedtime is always a contest between sprog and parent. Her goal is to postpone the moment when her eyes close; ours is to make it happen sooner. Besides, taking her round the garden is Dora's job, most nights (it's certainly not mine).

Anyway, it means we're up. I can be in the lab in perhaps 30 minutes.
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[personal profile] alt_sirius 2013-08-23 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Small progress is still progress, I suppose.

I wonder .... You said you and Hermione were talking about notations through the centuries.

Are you using standard Imperial measures?
alt_sirius: (Dunno)

[personal profile] alt_sirius 2013-08-23 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Well, it was developed in about 1625 or something similar.

It's been copied so many times, though, I was sure somewhere along the line it had been updated for modern units of measure.

There's a set of apothecaries' weights in the shop. I'll pop down for them before I come back.