[Sca-cooks] Rue Substitute?

[Stefan li Rous]

Anahita asked:
> A friend is making an Apician recipe, Aliter Dulcis (Book 7, Section
> 13, Recipe 5), which uses pine nuts, honey, rue, milk, passum, and
> eggs.
I thought this might be the pine nut candy, which comes out somewhat 
like modern peanut brittle, but milk? and what is "passum"? Can someone 
post the recipe?
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute for rue?
Any commentary I've seen on substitutes for rue is likely to have been 
placed in this Florilegium file, so you might check here:
rue-msg           (26K)  9/18/04    Medieval uses of the herb "rue". 
Cautions.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/PLANTS/rue-msg.html

Stefan
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