Cucumbers was [Sca-cooks] 2002 Cook's Symposium

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> The earliest reference I've heard of in England is 14th Century during the
> reign of Edward III.  It is presumably from a list of seeds by Roger,
> gardener to the Archbishop of Cantebury.  I haven't verified this.  They
> seem to disappear from the literature and reappear during the reign of Henry
> VIII (William Turner, A New Herball (1551) and Thomas Hill, The Gardener's
> Labyrinth (1577).

I seem to remember something about some wierd vegetable fads in the pre
1500s in England?

> In case you're interested, here is the list of garden items found in
> Capitulii LXX of Chalemagne's Capitulare de Villis (c. 800):
>
> Volumus quod in horto omnes herbas habeant, id est lilium, rosas,
> fenigrecum, costum, salviam, rutam, abrotanum, cucumeres, pepones,
> cucurbitas, fasiolum, ciminum, ros marinum, careium, cicerum italicum,
> squillam, gladiolum, dragantea, anesum, coloquentidas, solsequiam, ameum,
> silum, lactucas, git, eruca alba, nasturtium, parduna, puledium, olisatum,
> petresilinum, apium, levisticum, savinam, anetum, fenicolum, intubas,
> diptamnum, sinape, satureiam, sisimbrium, mentam, mentastrum, tanazitam,
> neptam, febrefugiam, papaver, betas, vulgigina, mismalvas, id est altaea,
> malvas, carvitas, pastenacas, adripias, blidas, ravacaulos, caulos, uniones,
> britlas, porros, radices, ascalonicas, cepas, alia, warentiam, cardones,
> fabas maiores, pisos mauriscos, coriandrum, cerfolium, lacteridas,
> sclareiam. Et ille hortulanus habeat super domum suam Iovis barbam.


Cool! Thank you lots and lots.


-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
"Words can be your friend or your enemy, depending on who's
throwing the book, so watch your language." Stoppard