SC - The siege cook challenge.

[Varju at aol.com]

  Well, that's the problem. Gillyflower is probably a corruption of
  gilofre. The term cloves is an abbreviation for cloves gilofre, which is
  the correct name of the spice. Gilofres and/or girofles could either
  refer to the flower, which smell like cloves gilofre, or to actual
  cloves gilofre. The only way I think we can be sure is if the source
  says something like "take flowers [or petals, or leaves, etc.] of cloves
  gilofres", which many other flower recipes do. Classic circular logic
  otherwise.

Exactly.

  Perhaps if I rub my lamp and wish for Lady Katerine Rountre to
  appear...;  )

I checked her web page, and her article on flowers.  But no specific
radiance shown forth.  (:-)

	Tibor