[Sca-cooks] need help identify these items

[johnna holloway]

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