SC - Recipe from an old Gourmet magazine
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Mon May 24 04:02:57 PDT 1999
> Stefan li Rous wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know when it was first used in Europe? I thought post 1600
> > but can't remember for sure.
>
> For practical purposes, allspice seems to "take off" in the eighteenth
> century in Europe. One problem with clearly identifying its use is that
> it goes by several different names, virtually all of which can also
> refer to other things, such as pimiento, quatre-epice, etc.
>
> Adamantius
>
IIRC, it was supposedly found during Columbus' third voyage. Which means
the first use was late 15th, early 16th century. Popular use is open to
question.
Bear
============================================================================
To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".
============================================================================
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list