[Sca-cooks] Question to the group....

[Stefan li Rous]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa said:
> Note that many British herbals claim that horseradish wasn't used until
> relatively recently. (I.e., the British didn't use it.)

Well, the following message is from my horseradish-msg file.

But the only other English mention I have of horseradish is in
Digby. But then my file is hardly comprehensive.

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> Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 12:56:36 -0700
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> From: david friedman <ddfr at best.com>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] sugar and regia anglorum
>
> >> > 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.
> --
> David Friedman
> ddfr at best.com
> http://www.daviddfriedman.com/