SC - Lovage

[LrdRas@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/20/2000 7:55:34 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
ringofkings at mindspring.com writes:

<< 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?
  >>

I know radishes appear in recipes for compost, but that's pickled, not cooked 
as I recall.  So radishes were eaten in period, but I can't remeber if I've 
ever seen a reference to the cooked.  If I recall, the middle English word 
for radishes is "rafens"; am I correct in this?

Brangwayna Morgan