SC - Edible weeds

[Philippa Alderton]

Kiri skrev:

> I just thought it was interesting that a holdover from a
>period way of spelling "salad" occurs in this context...I found it in
Southwestern
>Virginia, near enough to the Appalachians to be related to the use of
Elizabethan
>English in that area.

Yeah, there's a lot of the Elizabethan spellings AND phrasings down in that
area. As a Virginian myself, when talking to me you'll notice a slight
Southern accent (unless I'm puttin' on the dog) although I speak and write
Standard American English quite well. OTOH, if I'm down South, talking to
other Southerners, particularly country folks. I be talkin' and phrasin'
things a mite different.... ;-)

If you want to really see and treasure the early American version of the
transitions from Medieval methods and ingredients to modern ways, try to get
your hands on some of the very early Southern American cookbooks, and watch
as they substitute some of the American ingredients for the traditional
ingredients in Late Medieval English (mostly) dishes. My observations of the
Northerners are that they pretty well changed as the English did, using, for
example, more root vegetables and rib-sticking-type foods- New England
Cabbage Boil as an example- but in the early days, the Southerners tended to
stick with the older recipes, being more conservative by nature. Southern
cuisine really started to deviate when their African slaves started doing
all the cooking, and started to add in the previously thought-to-be-inedible
ingredients to standard Southern fare, and made them Good.

Phlip

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phlip at morganco.net

Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

"All things are poisons.  It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a
poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus

"Oats -- a grain which in England sustains the horses, and in
Scotland, the men." -- Johnson

"It was pleasant to me to find that 'oats,' the 'food of horses,' were
so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
Boswell

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