[Sca-cooks] Spanish tomato sauce, late 16th c.? -- from Gerarde's Herball 1597

[wheezul at canby.com]

Another source from BSB:

Della Porta, Giambattista: Io. Baptistae Portae Neapolitani, Magiae
naturalis libri viginti, Ab ipso quidem authore ante biennium adaucti,
nunc vero ab infinitis, quibus editio illa scatebat mendis, optimè
repurgati ... Acceßit Index, rem omnem dilucidè repraesentans,
copiosißimus ..., Francofurti, 1591

Book link:
http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0003/bsb00033027/images/

Has this small entry on malum aureum at the bottom of the page:

http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0003/bsb00033027/images/index.html?id=00033027&fip=131.252.192.179&no=14&seite=162

Might this be the gold apple?

There are other items of note - how to make vinegar, for one, and another,
how to keep weasels out (presumably of the chicken coops).

Katherine