Re- SC - Re- eggs

[Mark Harris]

Not only is tansy poisonous, it is a very powerful abortive in the smallest
doses -- ladies have been known to abort from the amounts absorbed through
the skin by touching the leaves.

                                Jon


At 09:00 PM 10/25/97 EDT, you wrote:
>I have a quandary which has come up again: is tansy poisonous, and if so,
>why do I keep running into recipes in period or near period, which call
>for tansy as the main flavorings?
>It is especially madding considering that I have planted three tansy
>plants outside my kitchen window to repel the ants {which worked for a
>while}. When I bought them, they came with a warning that they were
>poisonous, then I found some recipes in my herbal books, but our local
>herbalist thought they were similar to wormwood, in that flavoring
>wouldn't kill you but it was to picky to mess around with.Now I find two
>more recipes in the _A concise encyclopedia of Gastronomy_, one of which
>says that a "Tansy" in England was the name of a custard flavored with
>tansy or other bitterish leaves. The other recipe is for a pudding.
>Has anyone else come across these or similar  recipes,preferably in
>period sources? Is it really poisonous or only in large quantities? Does
>anyone have any other uses for tansy?
>Lady Beatrix
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