[Sca-cooks] 2002 Cook's Symposium

[Sue Clemenger]

His Grace's point re: the cukes and vegetable marrow were that she was
referring to them as "summer squash," not that there were problems with
cukes and marrow themselves.
--Maire

jenne at fiedlerfamily.net wrote:
>
> > Her ingredient references are also inaccurate--tea as an ingredient in
> > mead, use of kidney beans, references to cucumbers and vegetable marrow
>
> I have a question. When can you document cucumbers coming into England? We
> know they were known in France-- they reputedly show up in Charlemagne's
> regulations--, and in England by the time of Thomas Hill.
>
> -- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
> "It's no use trying to be clever- we are all clever here; just try
> to be kind- a little kind." F. J. Foakes Jackson.
>
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