[Sca-cooks] Period substitute for tomatoes?

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Or rather," Tomatoes, a substitute for period what?"

In some SCA-period Middle Eastern dishes, tamarind was used to add a 
sweet-and-sour flavor. I can't track this historically, but it seems 
to me that tomatoes may have replaced tamarind in *some* dishes as 
they evolved.

No evidence, no proof, just based on cooking a fair number of dishes 
from a multitude of medieval Arabic-language cookbooks (which include 
some specifically named Jewish and Christian dishes) and modern North 
African and Southwest Asian cookbooks (which also include some 
specifically named Jewish and Christian dishes).
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Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita