[Sca-cooks] salad of fennel and seville oranges?

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 13, 2006, at 2:33 PM, Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

>> Liber de coquina uses fennel (f(o)eniculum) as a vegetable, so I'd  
>> say fleshy
>> fennel exists by then (probably not quite as flesh as our bulbs,  
>> but fleshy
>> nonetheless). That gives us very early 14th c, with probable  
>> antecedents in
>> the 13th (the book dates to 1310 and is believed to be a  
>> translation of an
>> earlier text).
>
> Forme of Cury refers to 'blades' of fennel:
>
> "Fenkel In Soppes. XX.III. XVII. Take blades of Fenkel. shrede hem not
> to smale, do hem to seeþ in water and oile and oynouns mynced þerwith.
> do þerto safroun and salt and powdour douce, serue it forth, take  
> brede
> ytosted and lay the sewe onoward."

<hits forehead> Of course. I woulda remembered that if I weren't in  
the midst of 11 other things...

Of course, I'm still really interested in those Roman Legionaries  
eating this salad...

Adamantius




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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
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"Confessions", 1782

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