SC - Pottage called Peach-Dish

[Elaine Koogler]

I think she may be referring to a wonderful soteltie that uses ground almonds
and other ingredients to simulate real peach seeds.

Kiri

"William E. Lyon" wrote:

> Good fellows all,
>
> One might wish to be careful with the serving of peach pits even as
> a jest as the inner seed (also known as bitter almonds) is a source
> of Arsenic. A couple of bitter almonds will not hurt most people, more
> than that will kill you.  How many more I am not sure.
>
> Sincerly,
> Ealasaid
> And it came to pass on 26 Mar 01, , that Christine Seelye-King wrote:
>
> > This weekend, I tried the following recipe translated and posted by Lady
> > Brighid.  It was absolutely yummy, and was declared a winner among period
> > recipes.  Below is the original, and my experiment last night.
> > Christianna
>
> I redacted this once.  I found it tasty, but too caloric for my
> personal use.  I used frozen peach slices, fresh peaches not being
> in season.  You, as I recall, can get them cheaply in season.
>
> If you were serving this sauce at a feast, it might be amusing to
> serve peach pits as well.  You could explain to the feasters that
> you were being very thrifty, and not wasting any part of the
> peach.... :-)
>
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