SC - Sumac

[Decker, Terry D.]

At 9:54 AM +0000 3/5/98, Christina van Tets wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Just to reiterate, I had always understood (from Cornish
>grandparents) that the potato was not what denoted the Cornish pasty.
>It could be made from anything, including jam, and the savoury ones
>almost always, IIRC, included turnips, which I am fairly certain (!)
>are period?

They are.

Did you get any feeling for what were the defining characteristics?

>Incidentally, since we seem to be getting onto Roman stuff again, I
>have been reading 'Palladius on husbandrie', a 1420 (humanist?)
>translation of Martial's and others' works on farming.  It includes
>rather a lot of recipes for wine, including changing the flavours,
>and also for preserving olives, figs, and other fruit.  While I
>realise that the original writings are OOP, it is just conceivable
>that a humanist persona may have experimented with these techniques
>after their rediscovery (if they can attempt to take over Rome,
>surely they'd try anything!).

You might want to take a look at Platina. There are various places where he
sounds as though he is repeating information from classical sources.

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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