Powder fort
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In cooking powder fort (strong powder) is a combination of spices used by cooks for a dish requiring a strong spice flavour. Typical ingredients are pepper, long pepper, cloves, mace and galingale or ginger. For dishes requiring a sweeter spice taste, a powder douce was used.
One variation is a mix of ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves, pepper - proportions to taste
