[Sca-cooks] why is saffron a mistake?

[Decker, Terry D.]

This is one of the long running jokes on the list.

David Friedman (Duke Cariadoc) doesn't like saffron, therefore he attributes
saffron in historic recipes to "scribal error."

Bear

> I noted with interest that someone said that saffron n a meat
> recipe was a mistake?
> Why??
> I have some lovely old recipes with saffron in them and if it
> was authentic to saxon surely it is authentis to you?
> Vara (cofused)