[Sca-cooks] poppyseeds?

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Wed Jun 16 07:11:54 PDT 2004


Also sprach Joyce Brendlinger:
>I was just eating breakfast (poppyseed muffin) when it occurred to me
>that I haven't seen any medieval recipes calling for poppyseeds.
>It could be that I just wasn't looking, but were they used?
>--
>Gianetta

I don't think they grew in Europe in period, except possibly in the 
Balkans. But that's not based on any really hard research, just 
agreement that I also haven't seen any European recipes, but I know 
they grow in places like Turkey.

Adamantius



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