[Sca-cooks] Eating wild plants -- garlic mustard

[Marjan English]

I'm fascinated by this thread and want to try cooking some garlic mustard, but somehow have either not seen it growing wild, or not recognized it.  Does anyone know if it grows in B.C.?

 

Thanks

Myrrim
 
> From: johnnae at mac.com
> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 20:39:25 -0400
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Eating wild plants -- garlic mustard
> 
> They seem to have eaten it as a sauce with fish in Britain.
> I just did the English entries.
> 
> Johnnae
> 
> On Mar 24, 2010, at 5:31 PM, emilio szabo wrote:
> 
> >
> > Another passage from a late 16th century herbal says, that the cooks 
> > use the leaves to make condimenta _for_ salted fishes ("fanno i 
> > cuochi con le sue frondi le salse, & i condimenti per i pesci 
> > salati"). The _cum_ in Dodoens is somewhat ambiguous to me, it can 
> > mean that the condiment is used with the salted fishes or it can be 
> > understood to mean that the salted fishes are part of the 
> > preparation of the condiment and are crushed together with the leaves.
> >
> > Perhaps others can comment.
> >
> > E.
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