[Sca-cooks] poppyseeds?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

>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

Nothing European comes to mind, but they do show up in a number of 
Near Eastern recipes...

I went through the Anonymous Andalusian cook book and al-Baghdadi's 
book and counted all the appearances of various spices, herbs, nuts, 
vinegars, murris, flower waters, sweetening agents, etc.

Not sure where i put the finished list (gotta dig it up and get it on 
my website), but i recall poppy seeds showing up in a limited number 
of al-Baghdadi's recipes, including IIRC white poppy seeds in one.

Anahita