[Sca-cooks] poppyseeds?

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> 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

Ah, but was that poppy seeds? The sap of the opium poppy was dried and
concentrated and used as a painkiller/soporific in period (that's what
morphine, codeine, and heroin are derived from- they're all "opiates"),
which is what this seems to refer to, but I understand the seeds are simply
a garnish and a flavoring, since they haven't any of the opiate compounds in
them.

Saint Phlip,
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