SC - Re: Currants vs Zante raisins (Long reply)

[LrdRas@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/20/2000 3:42:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
CBlackwill at aol.com writes:

> Wasn't potash used as a leavening during the Middle Ages?  

I know it was in the days after "the recent unpleasantness" here in the 
South, but the general consensus on the list is that it wasn't in period, or 
at least that was the impression I got the last time we discussed this on the 
list. Anybody remember what "hartshorn" turned out to be?

Corwyn