[Sca-cooks] Danelaw feast - Take Two

[Nancy Kiel]

Might the original receipt have called for "barberry" rather than "bayberry"?  I'm not at all familiar with the book, I just have seen barberries called for in later period receipts.  I understand they have a rather tart flavour.
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  From: Lonnie D. Harvel<mailto:ldh at ece.gatech.edu> 
  To: Cooks within the SCA<mailto:sca-cooks at ansteorra.org> 
  Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 11:27 PM
  Subject: [Sca-cooks] Danelaw feast - Take Two



  At the suggestion of one of the authors, clove is being used in place of 
    bayberry, given the danger of the latter. I do not know how available 
  cloves would have been, but here it is a modern substitution for a 
  period spice now known to be dangerous.