[Sca-cooks] What is a 'Latwerge'

Cindy M. Renfrow cindy at thousandeggs.com
Tue Jul 3 13:27:23 PDT 2001


>
>Talked too early. Latwerge (fem), also Latwerg
>(neut), from Latin electuarium. Electuary, it
>seems. The origin is medical, but medieval use has
>it mostly as a kind of jellied compote.
>

So does it say when the meaning changed?

Cindy





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