[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks digest, Vol 1 #2325 honey butter and Anthimus

[Philippa Alderton]

--- Elizabeth A Heckert <spynnere at juno.com> wrote:
>      First let me state I don't own the book, nor do
> I have Anthimus.  I
> was reacting to the statement that Regina included
> in the post where she
> discusses boiling the butter with sweet flag.  The
> impression I got from
> that statement, which was:  "Honey-butter was a
> popular spread throughout
> the Middle Ages.  It is
> recommended boiled with sweet-flag as a cure for a
> cough."   is that you
> have two opposed things: soft butter with room temp.
> honey mixed in it,
> and  boiled (and I assumed, [snark!]) liquid butter
> with the sweet flag
> in it.  Now  message 11 quotes a passage from
> Anthimus which is clearly
> talking about soft butter and honey, mixed.  Are
> these not two different
> citations???  Isn't sweet flag an herb?

I'm not sure about the sweet flag- there's nothing
I've found in Anthimus about it- I was just quoting
the one cite I have, on honey butter. Is it possible
to get an exact quote and cite on the passage from the
Anglo-Saxon book, with any foot-notes added? I tend to
stick to original texts, in the original languages
(with translations) since I have very limited money
for cookbooks, so I don't have a copy of most of the
modern collections, other than Cariadoc's.

>      I was also under the impression that the
> statement about
> honey-butter was a quote from the book.

As was I.

Phlip

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