[Sca-cooks] Re: Period seaweed recipes

[vhsjvs at gis.net]

sound delishus to me, avid pickle eater that I am.  Can it be found
dried and packaged?  And does anyone have a recipe for picking seaweed?
Angharad

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> 
> > 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
> 
> 
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