[Sca-cooks] Intent or Interpretation

[Donna Green]

> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 20:55:05 -0800
> From: Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net>
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Intent or Interpretation
> 
> At the very least, try use a frying medium cited in the
> same source.  
> Not something modern like margarine or canola oil. 

Isn't canola oil the same as rapeseed oil? It is my understanding that it was just renamed for marketing purposes. Rapeseed is grown in northern Europe. Do any of the German specialists out there know if rapeseed oil was used in period cooking? 

Juana Isabella