SC - quail eggs

[Glenda Robinson]

Akim Yaroslavich asked:
> Has anyone
> ever seem any period evidence of preparing cooked 
> radishes or for that matter, any period documentation of
> radishes being eaten at all in period?

The following messages are from this file in the FOOD-VEGETABLES section
of my Florilegium:
root-veg-msg     (111K)  2/17/00    Medieval and period root vegetables.

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> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:28:56 -0400
> From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
> Subject: Re: SC - My first time..
> 
> "Amanda B. Humphrey" wrote:
> > I am
> > looking for a reference to radishes being period.  I am currently preparing
> > an art/sci entry and need to document the things I am using for my
> > soltetie.  I have thus far been able to find turnips, and apples, and
> > parsley, etc.  But radishes seem to elude me at every turn.  Could someone
> > suggest a book or web site or just a bibliography type reference that
> > mentions radishes?
> 
> They appear in 14th-century English recipes as rafens (from the Latin
> raphanus), and as radich (es) . Check out Constance Hieatt's and Sharon
> Butler's "Curye On Inglysch", published by the Oxford University Press
> for the Early English Text Society in 1985; it contains an excellent
> glossary of Middle English culinary terms, with an entry on rafens.
> There may or may not be similar information somewhere in "Pleyn Delit"
> by the same authors. (Not that Hieatt and Butler wrote the manuscripts
> transcribed in either of the books, but they wrote more of "Pleyn Delit".)
> 
> Adamantius

> Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:58:41 -0400
> From: "Robin Carroll-Mann" <harper at idt.net>
> Subject: Re: SC - My first time..
> 
> And it came to pass on 21 Apr 99,, that Amanda B. Humphrey wrote:
> > You are all so helpful and always seem to know where to find things .  I
> > am looking for a reference to radishes being period.
> 
> The _Arte Cisoria_ a 15th century Spanish carving manual, mentions
> radishes in the chapter on carving vegetables.  It suggests that they be
> sprinkled with salt to make the water come out of them, in order to
> temper their sharpness and frigidity.
> 
> > Lady Bebhinn O'Siodhachain
> > Shire of Starhaven
> > Kingdom of Trimaris
> 
> Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
> Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)