[Sca-cooks] 2002 Cook's Symposium

[Decker, Terry D.]

Marrow covers a multitude of sins.  Although it usually means a large,
watery squash similar to a zucchini, I have seen the term used in relation
to a pumpkin shaped winter squash in a 16th Century painting.

Cucumbers may not be an inaccuracy.  They are Old World and were known to
the Romans, so they may have been brought to England before the Anglo-Saxon
invasions.

Bear

> Her ingredient references are also inaccurate--tea as an ingredient in
> mead, use of kidney beans, references to cucumbers and
> vegetable marrow
> (I'm assuming zucchini here? we've actually been discussing that on
> H-costume) as "summer squashes."
> --maire
>