SC - Re: Frumenty for the Masses, Revisited

[kat]

- ---Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 15:18:57 EST
> > From: JSchl65101 <JSchl65101 at aol.com>
> > Subject: Re: SC - Substitutions
> > How about Staghorn Sumac Berries?  They are probably OOP,
> > but one name they're known by is Lemonade tree.
> > Niamh
> Not surprising. I've never heard of Staghorn Sumac, but the
> sumac used in Middle Eastern cookery is tart stuff. I don't
> have a specific reference, but I'd be surprised to find sumac
> _isn't_ period, at least for Islamic cooking.

 Adamantius, Staghorn Sumac is certainly pre-1600CE. Whether or not
it originated in the New World or elsewhere, I can't tell you with
certainty, but I grew up around the stuff (Central & Northern
Oklahoma). 

De Soto's expedition I believe used it, although I am not so certain
of other early conquistadores (with apologies, this is "head
knowledge": tidbits from a lifetime of learning, without
documentable source I can cite). I have no current evidence or
particular reason to believe that the Sumac I grew up with was
exported to Spain or other parts of Europe in any form before 1600ce.

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