[Sca-cooks] Spices was licorice,

[Elaine Koogler]

It's not totally out of reason...I had a good friend give me saffron 
crocus bulbs many years back. I pretty much destroyed them as I didn/t 
take proper care of them. But folk do grow them this far north...and 
this is far from the tropics (Maryland).

Kiri

Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> At 04:57 PM 2/23/2004, you wrote:
>
>> Interesting question, this could be the one that really puts the 
>> usage to
>> the test! All the references I can find online call it a spice. They 
>> also
>> however give it locations that almost match the definition that I was 
>> given.
>> (Tropical). I say almost because they also include some locations I 
>> would
>> call Mediterranean rather than tropical. Most notably Spain and Greece.
>> These pages however show no references to the British Isles. Now this I
>> believe is wrong. I am not familiar with English references, but I have
>> seen Irish references for Saffron, though at the time I was looking at
>> clothing references rather than foodways! The list I was looking at was
>> supposed to be historical sources, but I suspect it was in fact modern
>> sources.
>
>
> Hmm.
> IIRC, the references I saw for saffron being grown in England were not 
> on-line or in a cooking source, but in an upper-division class on the 
> Economy of England in the 14th and 15th c. The texts however are on a 
> bookshelf some 180 miles away, as usual.
> YMMV.
>
> 'Lainie
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