[Sca-cooks] what is 'shuniz'?
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius.magister at verizon.net
Sat Jun 25 11:56:35 PDT 2005
On Jun 25, 2005, at 3:01 PM, Volker Bach wrote:
> (apologies for the crosspost)
>
> I am trying to reproduce 'Milh Mutayyab' spice mixture and I am
> wondering
> about one ingredient. Arberry's translation renders it as
> 'shuniz'. In the
> Perry translation of the 'Description of Familiar Foods' a
> parallel recipe
> lists the same ingredients, but in place of 'shuniz' it has nigella.
>
> Is it reasonable to assume 'shuniz' is nigella?
>
> Grazie
>
> Giano
See http://www.thecookinginn.com/herbs/npage.html#N2
Adamantius (coming up with excuses not to leave the house yet, but
leaving now... honest)
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