[Sca-cooks] "Blattes de Bysance" in the Baghdad cookery book

[Philippa Alderton]

Iasked this myself several weeks ago, when I was
looking through the Mastic recipes. Cindy sent me a
file of messages from rec.food, and I'll send it along
to you privately- it's pretty long, and I haven't
edited it yet.

Phlip


--- Robin Carroll-Mann <rcmann4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Does anyone who what this mystery ingredient is?
> Our cook's
> guild is doing Middle Eastern for the next meeting,
> so I've been
> reading through the Anonymous Andalusian and
> al-Baghdadi.  The
> literal translation seems to be "cockroaches of
> Byzantium".  I
> thought I'd seen this discussed somewhere, but a
> Google search
> isn't turning anything up.
>
>
> Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
> rcmann4 at earthlink.net
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