SC - saffron substitute was-Adv

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Hi, Katerine here.  Mairi quotes from Helen Morgenthau Fox:

>In the sixteenth century, skirrets, Sium sisarum, were brought to Europe
>from Siberia and Persia, where they grew wild.  

The only problem is that they are ingredients in two recipes in Forme of
Curye (#7 and #152, as edited in Cury on Inglysch), which dates from the
fourteenth century.  Either she has her history wrong, or these are
something different.

Cheers,

- -- Katerine/Terry

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