[Sca-cooks] need help identify these items
johnna holloway
johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu
Fri Jul 19 04:21:37 PDT 2002
I haven't been up to doing anything about this question,
but I did pull my copy of Plat off the shelf.
This is from Sir Hugh Plat's Delightes for Ladies. I own the Fussell
edition from 1948. Skipping over Orace and Cypres,
I noted that
Calamus Aromaticus is identified by the Fussells as supposed to be
Andropogon Schoenanthus, the sweet-scented lemon-grass of Malabar.
Now where they got this I can't tell you and I haven't had the time to
take it further or to run
the OED/MED searches yet. I'll try and run it through Grigson later
today and see what he says.
Johnna Holloway Johnnae
Huette von Ahrens wrote:>
> Okay, I have to ask this ...
>
> Since the instructions call for orace, which is Orris
> Root, which is Iris root, _and_ it calls for "Calamus
> Aromaticus", which you say is "the root of Sweet
> Flag".
> Last I heard, Sweet Flag was a form of Iris. Has no
> one but me noticed the similarity in ingredients?
> > Huette
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