[Sca-cooks] What is "Janete"?

Antonia Calvo dama.antonia at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 17:02:39 PDT 2010


Mark S. Harris wrote:
> <<< On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Frustrated! Janet is supossed to be yellow. I supose saffron should be
> added.
>
> Saffron is a common ingredient of "all fine spices" (a couple of other
> recipes specify "all fine spices except saffron").  The recipes for
> Janete say the spices are to be added near the end.  I would suggest
> at least half an hour before the dish is done and served.
>   


I think janet is a misspelling of genet, or broom aka genista and so forth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom_%28shrub%29

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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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