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

[Stefan li Rous]

johnna holloway commented:
> Jadwiga's right in that Vanilla did not come into
> common usuage until the 19th century, but vanilla was
> known and used in the production of chocolate in the
> 17th century.
>
> I did a long summary of research on vanilla back in January
> of this year in answer to a thread and queries on MK-Cooks.
> I sent the long version into Stefan for the Florilegium and maybe
> one of these days the material will appear in that under vanilla.
Yes, and I appreciate it. I did save it to get put into the vanilla-msg
file. Unfortunately, I may have lost it in my disk crash in April. :-(
One of the biggest things I regret losing is the articles that folks
had sent me for the Florilegium that hadn't gotten edited and uploaded
to the website yet. Since I have a backup of my mail, made in February,
I may have a copy of that message unless I saved the message for the
files and then deleted it. With the new operating system and because I
was getting tired of Netscape losing my mail, I changed to the Apple
mail program. But transferring my old mail to the new system has not
gone as smoothly as I had hoped it would. So, if it isn't too
inconvenient, please send it to me again as well as any others you
haven't seen appear in the Florilegium yet.

I have saved this message to go into that file.

Stefan
>
>  From that posting---
>
> Vanilla
>
> OED lists this as the earliest quotation
> 1662 H. Stubbe  Indian Nectar ii. 11
> They added..the Vaynillas [to the chocolate] for the like ends, and to
> strengthen the brain.
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