[Sca-cooks] Spices was licorice,

[Johnna Holloway]

Of course Saffron  was grown in England----------
hence Saffron Waldron---
http://www.saffronshops.com/history/index.shtml

If one examines William Harrison's Description of England
one will find that chapter VIII of Book III is titled:
"Of Our Saffron and the Dressing Thereof." Harrison wrote
his accounts for Holinshed's 16th century Chronicles of England.
(The Dover edition of Harrison is very reasonably priced for those
that still buy books.)

Johnnae llyn Lewis


>
>>   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.  snipped
>> 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
>