[Sca-cooks] Pickles from Ein Boke de Guter Spise

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Stefan wrote
>Adamantius replied to Guenievre with:
>  >On Jun 23, 2006, at 9:58 AM, Guenievre de Monmarche wrote:
>  > > Flavor caraway seeds and anise with pepper and with vinegar and
>  > > with honey.
>  > > And make it gold with saffron. And add thereto mustard. In this
>  > > condiment
>  > > you may make sulze (pickled or marinated) parsley, and small
>  > > preserved fruit
>  > > and vegetables, or beets, which(ever) you want.
>  >
>  > This is almost identical to the English compost recipes, except there
>  > the vegetable content is specified pretty clearly (it's a mixture).
>  >
>  > The recipe shows up in various forms in French, English, and German
>  > sources (not to mention something pretty close in Apicius). It seems
>  > like most often the vegetables so preserved are a mix, or beets,
>  > carrots or cucumbers. Cabbage cut into squares, or even cauliflower
>  > (assuming no issues with its region-specific periodicity) would also
>  > be good.
>
>I seem to remember a lot more different vegetables than this,
>especially more root vegetables, in the compost recipes.

I'm with you, Stefan. I made some pickles from the Guter Spise recipe 
and i din't think they were much like the Compost i made from Form of 
Curye.

Perhaps they are distant cousins...
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Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita