[Sca-cooks] poppyseeds?

[Daniel Myers]

On Jun 16, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Joyce Brendlinger wrote:

> 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?

They were certainly used as a medicinal:

	"Not poppy, nor mandragora,
	Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
	Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
	Which thou owedst yesterday."

	Shakespeare - Othello, Sc. 3.


- Doc


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