[Sca-cooks] The use of sumac in medieval Arabic cooking

[Suey]

>> I guess the question is, was it ever used in the medieval period? I do not specifically see it mentioned in Perry, so I am just wondering if there is a term I am missing, or whether it was Turk-specific and they brought it with them into the lands they had conquered.
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The florilegium.org
<http://www.florilegium.org/files/PLANTS/sumac-msg.html> pretty well 
answers this. Beside the mention of it in Anon. Andalus, in Spain it was 
used as a drink with chickpeas and chard and as a substitute for murri.
Suey
Suey