SC - Cranberries?

[Mark Schuldenfrei]

Adamantius wrote:
  The standard variety of cranberry that one commonly finds in things like
  commercial cranberry sauce does appear to be native only to the new
  world. There are other varieties of cranberry that are found in
  Scandinavia and Russia, though, as well as various other berries that
  are fairly similar, like cloudberries.

Indeed.  This is perhaps the canonical example of one of the hassles of
redacting cookery.  Many new world plants were given old world names, and
now are the only plants available.

It's a hard road to decide what to do with that information.  Do we use the
commonly available semi-equivalent, search for the original, or what?


Adamantius continued:
  Various cooking sodas (esp. sodium carbonate, commonly known today as
  washing soda) were in use in Roman cookery, although apparently not as a
  leavening for baking.

Washing soda is not for consumption.  Did you mean baking soda, NaHCO3?  Aka
Bicarbonate of Soda?

	Tibor
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