[Sca-cooks] More musings on nightshade and tomatoes

[Sandra Kisner]

>My feeling on the subject is based on basic tenets of English cookery 
>rather than any specific source.  What do the English do with vegetable 
>matter?  Boil and eat the leaves.  NOT a good idea when it's a 
>nightshade.  Certainly, your observations on why the fruit might well be 
>disregarded only supports this theory.
>
>Selene

Some vegetable matter, certainly, but not all.  What about skirrets, or 
peas, or beans?  Or parsley, for that matter; they used both top and bottom 
of that, so it was more than just an herb.

Sandra