[Sca-cooks] bay berries

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> It sounds like either we have a translation error, a substitution for 
> ease of finding an ingredient (which I doubt as this is a translation 
> and not a redaction) or we actually have two different plants with 
> perhaps the New World one being named after the Old World one. I don't 
> know Latin, but "bacae lauri" does look like laurel berry.

Flower and Rosenbaum translate it as :laurel berry".

> The link given doesn't talk of the bayberry they are talking about 
> being edible, just it's use as a wax source.

Francesco Sirene carries laurel berriesm according to his caralog:
http://www.silk.net/sirene/spices.htm

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