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

[Johnna Holloway]

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.