SC - figs
Olwen the Odd
olwentheodd at hotmail.com
Mon Apr 23 13:36:15 PDT 2001
>Yes, lovage is period (assuming the period authors were not also
>conflating lovage and smallage). It shows up in a few herbals, and Mrs.
>Grieve's _Modern Herbal_ gives a summary:
>http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/l/lovage42.html
>
>Alexanders, another period relative of celery, is marketed as black lovage
>by seedsellers. I'm going to try again this year to grow some from the
>seed I bought last year.
>
> --
>Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise jenne at mail.browser.net
So do you think that if I use perhaps the black lovage seed instead of
celery seed I could use the recipe citing period ingredients?
Olwen
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