[Sca-cooks] Period substitute for tomatoes?

[Johnna Holloway]

morgana.abbey at juno.com wrote:
> OK.  The question is backwards.
>
> It's not what to substitute for tomatoes.  It's when tomatoes were introduced into the Old World, were *they* subbed into existing recipes or were new dishes created for them?
>   
What we uncovered when we did 

"Sixteenth Century Italian and Spanish Tomato References" by Johnnae 
llyn Lewis, Helewyse de Birkestad, and Brighid ni Chiarain.

as archived and found in the Florilegium, is that tomatoes reportedly 
were fried and eaten with verjuice (vinegar), eaten "in the same way as 
the eggplant with pepper, salt and oil," and eaten with salt.

Johnnae