SC - period frog recipes?

[Stefan li Rous]

Eden said: 
> And more relevantly, assuming your definition of Period stretches that far
> LaVarenne has a recipe:
> from the 1654 English translation
> 
> Tourte of Frogs
> pass the great legs in the pan with good butter very fresh, mushrooms,
> parsley, hartichoks sod and cut, and capers, all well seasoned, put it into
> a sheet of fine or puft paste, and bake it; afer it is baked, serve it
> oncovered with a white sauce.

Okay, anyone know what this hartichoks sod is? I would assume artichokes
but is this a particular part? And what is "sod"? Is this a part of the
artichoke? Or is this something you do to the artichoke along with cutting
it?
 
> He also has a recipe for sea otter for which not even Sauce Bob can make me
> forgive him ;->

Why do you say this? I thought I'd heard somewhere that sea otter tastes
"fishy". Anyone know? Nanna?

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