[Sca-cooks] Romanian Cookbook

[Susan Fox-Davis]

"Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" wrote:

> On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 10:28  AM, Patrick Levesque wrote:
>
> > 1 recipe of an unknown vegetable: anghenarii (help, anyone?)
>
> I found one reference to anghenarii on the Web:
>
> http://biblioteca.euroweb.ro/calendar/decembrie2.htm

Google gave me another page from the same site that
appears to be some recipes from a book with garlic
on the cover:  http://biblioteca.euroweb.ro/bucate/coperta.htm

> _If_ the Romanian language bears as much resemblance to Latin as the
> common words seem to indicate, and if, on that page, a word indicating
> spinach shows up just a few words along from anghenarii, and if the
> resemblance of the word "anghenarii" to the word "angon" (which is a
> kind of spear, as I recall, known to the Romans), we might be looking
> at some kind of long/hollow-stemmed, blade-leafed green, like amaranth
> or water spinach. Something mallow-ish.

Spear... that reminds me of the Anglo-Saxon "gaer-leek" garlic.
Maybe "anghenarii" is cognate with "onion"?  I think we
are looking as some kind of allium here.

Maybe I've been practicing unhinging my modern sense of
spelling in order to read historical cookbooks...

Selene Colfox
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