[Sca-cooks] sugar and regia anglorum

[Philip & Susan Troy]

david friedman wrote:
>
> >  > > In just the last week or two, I was asking if anyone had any info on
> >>  > how horseradish was used in period. So far, all I think I've got is
> >>  > as a sauce. What can you tell me about how horseradish was used in
> >>  > Anglo-Ssaxon England (or elsewhere)?
> >
> >Something about the herbal texts I've looked at suggests to me that
> >horseradish, as a
> >medicament and condiment, may have come out of Eastern Europe and
> >taken quite some time
> >to make it to the hinterlands of Britain.
>
> Ann Hagen, in _A Second Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food and Drink_,
> includes horseradish in a list of herbs listed in _de Villis_ and/or
> the St. Gall plan. She seems to be implying that they are among the
> herbs most often cited in leechdoms, but the passage isn't entirely
> clear. She first says that the herbs most often cited in leechdoms
> are also those referred to in other sources, then gives a list of
> herbs from those two sources, including horseradish.

I had suspected that leechdoms would turn out to be the primary sources
for some of these asertions, and I haven't yet had a chance to look
closely through Wellcome's "Anglo-Saxon Leechcraft" for references to
things like sugar.

Adamantius