[Sca-cooks] Indian Nut

[Terry Decker]

I doubt it.  Moringa oleofera (sic, but I'm too lazy to check) is of East 
African origin, although members of Moringa are scattered from Madagascar to 
Malaysia.  The nuts were known as ban, ben or behen fairly early on.

Bear


> I've been following this thread very loosely, but could they be ben nuts?
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> On 13/08/05 13:21, "lilinah at earthlink.net" <lilinah at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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?