Fw: RE: Fw: Re: HERB - Fw: Re: SC - Celery

Christine A Seelye-King mermayde at juno.com
Tue May 11 08:45:16 PDT 1999


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From: "Decker, Terry D." <TerryD at Health.State.OK.US>
To: "'sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG'" <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 09:39:13 -0500
Subject: RE: Fw: Re: HERB - Fw: Re: SC - Celery
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> We should also remember that if it was eaten as a vegetable , it is
most  likely that only the leaves were used as such and not the stalks.
Recipes from al-Baghdadi use only the leaves and then as a flavoring
only. The date  is 1226 C.E. IIRC, al-Andalus also uses the leaves in
cooking. 
> Ras
> 
It may also be that the type of celery being raised in Europe was
celeraic
(Apium graveolens var. rapaceum) from which the root is used.

Bear

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