[Sca-cooks] cucumbers and vegetable marrow

[Sue Clemenger]

Aaaarrggggghhhhh!!
I'm not sure if I wrote it that poorly or what, but the problem was in
her: "references to cucumbers and vegetable marrow as...'_summer
squashes_.'" (my quote minus the parenthetical expression).
They aren't summer squashes.
--maire, taking her cocoa and going to bed.....
but very glad she managed to get her cookies mailed off......

Stefan li Rous wrote:
>
> Maire commented:
>
> > 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."
> Okay, the tea is right out, as are the kidney beans. But what is the
>
> problem with the cucumbers and the vegetable marrow? I thought both
> of these were native to Europe. See:
> cucumbers-msg     (12K)  5/17/01    Medieval and period cucumbers. Recipes.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-VEGETABLES/cucumbers-msg.html
>
> Or are you referring to Anglo-Saxon England, since the cucumber doesn't
> seem to have appeared there until the 14th century? And yes, vegetable
> marrow doesn't seem to get to England until the 17th century.
> marrow-msg        (22K)  1/14/02    Getting bone marrow. Recipes with marrow.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/marrow-msg.html
> --
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