SC - RECIPE CHALLENGE I
Mark Schuldenfrei
schuldy at abel.MATH.HARVARD.EDU
Wed Jul 9 12:55:03 PDT 1997
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
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