SC - Garlic in British Isles (was: rasher/game birds)

[david friedman]

At 4:01 PM -0400 5/1/98, marilyn traber wrote:
>The only thing that really pops into my mind- when did garlic get into
>common use in the British Isles? I seem to think that onions were used more
>often, being local and traditional with game birds...and the use of garlic
>wasn't prevalent in W.W.II...

You certainly get garlic referred to repeatedly in 14th-century English
recipes, as flavoring in various dishes and even as a vegetable on its own:
aquapatys (from Forme of Cury) is boiled garlic with seasonings, served
forth hot.  The word garlic is Anglo-Saxon, meaning (if I remember
correctly) spear-onion.

Elizabeth/Betty Cook


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