SC - period celery use

[Louise Sugar]

I've always used the celery leaves in soups as did my mother and grandmother
and my grandmother said that her mother and grandmother did as well.....I
can't find any documentation in any of the stuff I have here but it might
possibly be that it was something all good cooks did that was just never
written down....  :D  some of my best recipies are not written down....as
they were taught me it goes something like this: a handful of this and a
pinch of that and this is how you measure the other  :D


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From: Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Saturday, January 03, 1998 2:46 AM
Subject: SC - period celery use


>Ras said:
>
>>In case I missed it throw in a couple of stalks of chopped celery
>>with there leaves.
>
>Interesting. First time I’ve heard mention of using the celery leaves
>as well as the stalks.
>
>Does anyone have evidence of celery leaves being used in period? In
>Food by Waverly Root, she does mention celery in medieval times but
>mentions only the stalks. She also indicates that the Romans cultivated
>celery, although they prefered the stronger tasting wild celery. The
>art of growing celery may have been lost in the Middle Ages, not
>surfacing again until the 1500s in Italy.
>
>She says the celery leaf was a common motif on Goth cathedrals and
>on the coronets of dukes and marquis.
>
>Stefan li Rous
>stefan at texas.net
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