[Sca-cooks] Indian Nut

[Patrick Levesque]

I've been following this thread very loosely, but could they be ben nuts?

Petru



On 13/08/05 13:21, "lilinah at earthlink.net" <lilinah at earthlink.net> wrote:

> All the discussion of coconuts has been interesting, but remember the
> Tuscan cookbook is from the late 1300s or very early 1400s, and most
> of the references to coconut are to at least 100 years later, and
> mostly 16th C.
> 
> I still think "noci d'India" is some sort of spice. I've considered
> cardamom, but that is called "cardamome" in the Italian text.
> Anyother suggestions?