[Sca-cooks] help with Polish/Hungarian name for herb?

[johnna holloway]

I gather this wasn't mentioned in Polish Herbs,
Flowers & Folk Medicine which you reviewed
sometime back?

Johnnae

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
>
> In _Food and Drink in Medieval Poland_, a reference is made to an herb
> that seems to have been imported from Hungary with the recipe for
> sauerbraten; the herb is csombor.
> A google search and some dictionary diving suggests to me that csombor is
> probably the herb called savory. Does anyone on the list have Polish or
> Hungarian expertise enough to verify or deny?
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
> jenne at fiedlerfamily.net OR jenne at tulgey.browser.net OR jahb at lehigh.edu
> "Are you finished? If you're finished, you'll have to put down the spoon."
>
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