SC - New pet peeve

[Cindy Renfrow]

Jessica Tiffin wrote:

> Greetings, the list!
>
> Could someone please tell me what sumac or sumach is?  My dictionary is
> unhelpful and none of my cookbooks mention it.  We made Maqluba,  the lamb
> patties from Cariadoc's Miscellany for our event this weekend, and had to
> leave out the sumac in sheer ignorance.  The recipe requires you to boil the
> sumac and then cook the lamb in the sumac water - what would this do?  Is it
> a thickening or binding agent, or is it just for flavour? (Groovy recipe,
> even without the sumac...)
>
> yours in culinary curiosity,
> Melisant

Okay...the only sumac that I know is poison sumac (like poison oak or poison ivy)
though I doubt that could be what you're looking for.

Sorry,
Brenna

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