SC - Feast Service

[Cindy Renfrow]

I'd tend to agree , in that I remember reading references to tussilinge
which linked it to colts foot. Sorry, can't remember the source. Cetainly
coltsfoot is known as a herbal tobacco, and is thought to be soothing to the
chest.


karin
tirlan at tirlan.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	renfrow at skylands.net [SMTP:renfrow at skylands.net]
> Sent:	Thursday, January 21, 1999 3:12 PM
> To:	sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject:	Re: SC - Re: HERB - Tobacco and other Smoking Herbs
> 
> Hello!  Sorry if this is a repeat, but I don't think it got through the
> first time.
> -----
> 
> Just off the top of my head, might this plant be Tussilago farfara, aka
> Coltsfoot (or Coughwort)?
> 
> Gerard says of this plant:
> "The fume of the dried leaues taken through a funnell or tunnell, burned
> vpon coles, effectually helpeth those that are troubled with the
> shortnesse
> of breath, and fetch their winde thicke and often, and breaketh without
> perill the impostumes of the brest."
> 
> HTH,
> 
> 
> Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
> renfrow at skylands.net
> Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
> Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
> Recipes"
> http://www.alcasoft.com/renfrow/
> 
> 
> 
> >At 11:50 AM -0500 1/19/99, Christine A Seelye-King wrote:
> >>Ok, here's a question for the Herb List, anyone heard of "Tussilinge"?
> >
> >Which was in response to Jran-Baptiste de Foix's SCA-Cooks comment:
> >>> I once got to smoke a herb called "Tussilinge" the person who let me
> >>> smoke it says the Romans smoke it. and this person has done a
> >>>master's thesis in history about herbal uses in the Antiquity.
> >
> >Just on a whim, I've looked up some of the etymology of "tussilinge."
> >No web search results in any more than the Floreligium
> >commentary on it.
> >
> >Based on the middle english word "tussillen" and the "linge" of
> >the name, it could be, on my undereducated guess, Heather or
> >Calluna vulgaris. Looking up the words "touse," "ling," and
> >"tussillen" and perhaps "zirzuson" in a real dictionary might
> >yield better results.
> >
> >I cannot, however, find any information in my work library that
> >suggests that the Heather plant was smoked, only that it is an Old
> >World plant. I'll double-check in Gerard if I can find it when
> >I go home tonight, but it could just be a dead end. If you're
> >interested in looking it up yourself, try also looking for "hather"
> >which was a more common spelling in period (AFAIR) or under
> >"Eurasian heath." You may want to look under grasses if you have
> >a choice.
> >
> >Keep in mind that I'm taking a big WAG on this. I have no idea what
> >tussilinge is. I'm just curious if I can find any references to
> >it in my book collection and thought I'd share where I'm going
> >to look. Isn't the german word for "heather" "heide?"
> >
> >Don't you just love a good puzzle?
> >
> >
> >
> >Jasmine de Cordoba, Midrealm
> >jasmine at infoengine.com or gwalli at infoengine.com
> 
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