[Sca-cooks] Rue Substitute?
David Friedman
ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Fri Nov 19 17:49:52 PST 2004
Anahita wrote:
>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.
>
>She doesn't have rue. In his book on Apicius, Jonathan Edwards
>suggests rosemary as a substitute for rue, but i'm skeptical of this.
>
>Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitute for rue?
>
>Anahita
We have rue in the front garden. [Brief pause to go taste some
again.] I'm no good at describing tastes, but it is bitter and it
doesn't taste at all like rosemary. I'm not sure what I would suggest
as a substitute. Does she live near here?
Elizabeth/Betty Cook
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