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

[chirhart_1]

To err is human....
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From: <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] help with Polish/Hungarian name for herb?


> >  Why then did Food & Drink in Medieval Poland
> > not just identify it as a summer savory?
> > Page 92 says "Csombor is an herb with a
> > taste that resembles mugwort (Artemesia vulgaris).
> > It may be replicated by grinding together equal parts
> > tarragon, dill seed, and caraway seed." Why replace it
> > with this mixture and just not summer savory???
>
> I wonder if it slipped through the cracks of the translator's knowledge,
> and Woys Weaver included replication information that came from someone
> who helped them with the food testing?
>
> > I'm wondering if it was in fact one of the artemesias
> > like those that produced wormwood or absinthe... which of
> > course wouldn't be mentioned as a modern equivalent.
>
> It seems very odd. Knab says, "Marcin of Urzedow wrote that 'savory is a
> common herb and much eaten in Poland'." (Marcin of Urzedow is a 16th
> century source.)
>
> It's possible that the meaning migrated, but unlikely. Summer savory does
> look a little like mugwort looks at certain times of the year. It could
> also be winter savory.
>
>
> -- 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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