[Sca-cooks] Saffron in Ireland

[Johnna Holloway]

Saffron was and can be grown in England. Saffron Walden and Cornwall 
grew saffron
at various times.
There's no reason it couldn't have been
grown in Ireland as regards climate. [Ireland grows a surprising number 
of  almost  tropical plants
in gardens, including a number not grown in England.]
But did they? Is it saffron the plant or saffron the color? Did they use 
another
plants or plants to achieve the "saffron" yellow color?
This seems to be the question and that's been a bone of contention for
quite some time among various historians and Irish scholars and groups 
like the SCA.

http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/irish/saffrondye.html   suggests 
they used
another plant  that produced a yellow saffron color.
http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/irish/saffron.html is along these 
lines.

Googling  produces   1,530 for saffron yellow 
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=dict&q=http://dictionary.reference.com/search%3Fq%3Dsaffron%2Byellow%26r%3D67> 
color 
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=dict&q=http://dictionary.reference.com/search%3Fq%3Dcolor%26r%3D67> 
ireland 
<http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&oi=dict&q=http://dictionary.reference.com/search%3Fq%3Direland%26r%3D67>  



I don't know that we are going to produce a definative answer or if 
there is one.


Johnnae llyn Lewis