[Sca-cooks] OOP: Praline recipes from La Varenne, part 2

[Susan Fox-Davis]

> > > "Broom" is a yellow-flowered shrub, the "planta genista" of the
> > > Plantagenets.
> >
> > Do we need to remind everyone that American Broom is =not= the same plant
> > and will make you very sick indeed?
>
> I, for one, didn't know that there was such a thing as American
> Broom.  Let's remind everyone to carefully research any unfamiliar
> herbs in a period recipe.

I turn out to be incorrect.  I was going on anecdotal evidence from some
friends who brewed it as a tea and got sick.  What grows around here seems to
be Scotch Broom, which is on the California state list of pest plants.
<www.caleppc.org/>  My apologies to all.

Selene ("Mea Culpa") Colfox