[Sca-cooks] Eating wild plants -- garlic mustard
Johnna Holloway
johnnae at mac.com
Wed Mar 24 17:39:25 PDT 2010
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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