Vanilla Re: [Sca-cooks] Castellan Feast, 2003...LONG

[Leah A. Montgomery]

I never realized that we've been using it commonly for less than 200 years.
We use it in just about everything.



Leah A. Montgomery
SCA: Safia bint Wahib al Marakeshi called Samira
Head of Byat Al Viola Hirrar
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>From: <jenne at fiedlerfamily.net>
>Yup, the vanilla orchid is from South/Central America as I recall, and in
>fact Vanilla didn't come into common use until the 1800s because it wasn't
>until then that people worked out a way to hand-pollinate the flowers to
>increase yield to commercial quantities.
>
>-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
>"Our whole American way of life is a great war of ideas, and librarians
>are the arms dealers selling weapons to both sides." -- James Quinn

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