SC - MASTIC

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Well, one positive aspect to this whole bruhaha in Trimaris about feasting is 
that it has spured me on to start looking up recipes again.
I recently asked what *mastic* is.  Well, I found the answer!
Phillipa Seton

THE FOOD OF THE WESTERN WORLD An Encyclopedia of Food from North America and 
Europe
Theodora FitzGibbon
Quadrangle / New York Times Book Co.
1976

MASTIC
(Pistacia lentiscus)
An evergreen resinous shrub native to Southern Europe, the sap of which is 
used as a culinary flavoring.  .... The gum tastes fairly like liquorice, is 
obtained by making cuts into the tree bark.