SC - Help! Cabbage! Cakes!

Philippa Alderton phlip at morganco.net
Sun Dec 3 13:12:39 PST 2000


Anahita skrev:

>This is good work, as opposed to, well, "They had butter and they had
>honey, so they must have had honey-butter"

Ah, but they did have honey-butter, as early as ~ 470 CE. Howecer, it was a
medicine, rather than a condiment, as described by Anthimus. Or, has anyone
yet found honeybutter used as a condiment?

Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

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Scotland, the men." -- Johnson

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so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
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