[Sca-cooks] tomato sauce documentation

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> I have heard rumor that sometime in the late 1500 the Italians made a sauce from tomatoes by cooking the "poisonous" beasties for 3 days....  Does anybody have docs on this.  I can surely bet somebody somewhere is going to want to use tomato sauce

It's not tomato sauce, per se. It sounds more like stewed tomatoes and/
or bruchetta/salsa, and it's from Gerard's Herbal, 1597:

"In Spaine and those hot Regions they vse to eat the Apples prepared and 
boiled with pepper, salt, and oile: but they yeeld very little 
nourishment to the bodie, and the same nought and corrupt. Likewise they 
doe eat the Apples with oile, vineger and pepper mixed together for 
sauce to their meate, euen as we in these cold Countries doe Mustard."

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