SC - deep frying

[marilyn traber]

Uduido at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 97-09-19 12:34:49 EDT, you write:
> 
> << But I have seen several period recipes for cauliflower. >>
> 
> Where have you seen these? It was my understanding that a lady in England in
> the 1800's went to her garden and spotted a 'white' broccoli among her
> regular broccoli plants. Being the intelligent country gardener that she was,
> she let the plant go to seed and planted the sed the  next year producing
> couliflower. From that simple experiment all cauliflower today is descended.
> 
> Lord Ras

There are recipes for boiling cauliflower (variously spelled) in late
period sources. Without going through my bookshelves for the specific
sources, I think that such recipes would be found in things like
Dawson's "The Good Huswife's Jewell", Markham's "The English Housewife",
Murrell's "New Booke of Cookerie", or perhaps either Hugh Plat or Digby.

I believe both broccoli and cauliflower are plants of the Mediterranean
Basin, long ignored as weeds, and finally cultivated by the Italians,
originally.

Adamantius
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