[Sca-cooks] Recipe for fried avocado from Trudy's North Star

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    And I might point out that the word 'alligator' was a later english
corruption of the spanish 'el ligator' (the lizard), so 'alligator pears'
being on Columbus's ship is very improbable.

    Sieggy

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>I'd say take the Columbus tale with a grain of salt until "they" identify
>the contemporary source.  Avocado is southern Mexico and south, so some
>sources attribute it to Cortez.  Their use in the US doesn't start until
>around 1833, when they were introduced into Florida by Henry Perrine.
>
>Given the 2 to 3 month voyage from the New World, if you were an innkeeper
>gifted with avocados, they would probably be unpalatable mush which you
>would throw in the garbage.  In my opinion, outside of the tropical New
>World, avocados were most likely found in botanical gardens and were rarely
>eaten.
>
>Bear
>
>> Apparently, the "alligator pear" is cited amongst Columbus'
>> discoveries so I
>> see no
>> reason not to use it in "speculative" period-style cookery.
>> If an innkeeper such as myself was gifted with some of these
>> by a passing
>> mariner,
>> what would she make of them?
>>
>> Selene, Caid