SC - Potluck part two....

[Cindy Renfrow]

<snip>
>So far nobody has offered evidence that any stuffed grape leaves are
>period, although there seems to be a slightly out of period reference to
>them--recipe so far unknown (i.e. hasn't been posted; I assume someone
>knows it).
>
>David/Cariadoc
>http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
>

There is a reference to stuffed *fig* leaves in Athenaeus, but not grape
leaves:
"...visions of tender-flaked barley cakes, wheat bread, fine meal cakes,
octopuses, entrails, suet, sausages, soup, beets, stuffed fig leaves, ..."

Gulick's edition, Vol. 2, Book IV, p. 105.

HTH,


Cindy Renfrow
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/


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