SC - More Quince stuff...

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In one of Platina's recipes for peas, peas are boiled in water with carob,
before being sautéed with salt pork and spiced with verjuice or must or
spices.  Platina's not handy at the minute, so I don't have an exact quote..

Bear

> The only place I have seen this claim made is in Fabulous Feasts.  Do we
> have 
> any evidence for the use of Carob, St John's Bread , or Manna (or the 
> equation of carob with the other two names) in the middle ages other than
> Fab 
> Feasts?
> 
> Brangwayna Morgan
>