Corianders WAS : SC - Charlemagne + St. Gall

[E. Rain]

Balthazar asks about green coriander vs corander seed.  Apicius actually
uses both & specifies between the two.  "coriandrum viridium"  and
"coriandri semen".  I'm fairly certain I've seen fresh coriander (cilantro)
called for elsewhere as well (recently no less), but of course I cant recall
where at the moment and I've been looking at a LOT of books lately...

Eden

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Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 02:39:02 EDT
From: CBlackwill at aol.com
Subject: Re: SC - Charlemagne + St. Gall

In a message dated 5/24/00 11:18:20 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
allilyn at juno.com writes:

>
>  Veg. garden plants: onions, shallots, garlic, leek, celery, parsley,
>  coriander, chervil, dill, lettuce, poppy, savory, radishes, parsnip,
>  carrots, colewort, beet, black cumin.  [colewort is a sort of cabbage].
>  Orchard: apple, pear, mulberry, peach. plum, service & medlar, laurel,
>  chestnut, fig, quince, hazelnut, almond, walnut.
>   Physicc garden plants: 'Kidney' bean, savvory,

Let's see;  we've got some coriander, cumin, and onion...throw in some of
those later period tomatoes, and we'll make some salsa!  Seriously, any
recipes using the leaves of coriander (otherwise known as cilantro or
chinese
parsley) in period?  Also, is there any indication in the texts that the
coriander called for is, in fact, the seed, and not the leaf?  I happen to
love the stuff, and would be interested to see a recipe which uses the
leaves.

Balthazar of Blackmoor

Mr. Wizard, what happens when you combine pasta and antipasta?