[Sca-cooks] Re: Period seaweed recipes

[Susan Fox-Davis]

> Samphire (Crithmum maritumum) has been eaten in the Southwest of 
> England from at least medieval times.  It is now called Sea Fennel and 
> is eaten pickled.  In German it is called "meerfenchel", and in 
> Italian "Herba di San Pietra".  It grows on rocky cliffsides and is 
> mentioned in King Lear.  Both Gerard and Culpepper speak of it in 
> their writings.  It makes a very unique and aromatic pickle.  I saw it 
> mentioned in modern Cornish recipes when I lived there.  I will try to 
> locate some recipes, but since it is pickled fresh, am unlikely to 
> locate an American source.
>
> Halima
> Raven's Cove
>
I wouldn't be adverse to a bit of rock climbing, but I shudder to think 
of the pollution in any sea vegetables that I could find on the Southern 
California shore.  Yerch.

Selene Colfox