[Sca-cooks] Grapeseed oil and liana syrup

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 15 Nov 2004, at 9:57, Patrick Levesque wrote:

> 2 different topics, actually...
> 
> Can we document grapeseed oil in period? (probably, but where?... Actually, does
> anybody knows of sources devoted specifically to oil pressing, and the various
> kind of oils used, in period? Specifically late period Italy, but any reference
> will be interesting... I'm heading off to the Florilegium right now to check
> what's there :-))))

I know that grapeseed oil appears in the Manual de Mugeres (Spanish 
household manual, 15th/16th c.).  However, it is in recipes for cosmetics.  I 
don't know about culinary use, though I don't remember seeing it in other 
Spanish culinary sources.  Sorry.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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