SC - Feast Fees in Ansteorra

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 10:19 AM -0500 2/28/00, Seton1355 at aol.com wrote:
>...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.

Well, I wouldn't have said it tastes like liquorice; more like 
turpentine (or at least, the way turpentine smells--I haven't 
actually drunk any). It is a resin and you get it in Indian ethnic 
grocery stores and use it in really tiny amounts,

Elizabeth/Betty Cook