[Sca-cooks] What is "claussons"?

[James Prescott]

Indeed, cloves.

Thorvald


At 10:16 PM -0700 5/20/11, wheezul at canby.com wrote:
>  Looks like clove:
>
>  http://books.google.fr/books?id=QVMpAQAAIAAJ&q=clousson&dq=clousson&hl=fr
>
>  Katherine in An Tir
>
>>  I had some questions on this recipe from Lancelot de Casteau:
>>
>>  Original
>  poiure, claussons & pouldre, succre, canelle, vin
>>  rouge, deux ou trois oignons haschez menus,
>>  fricassez en beurre, & faictes les bien bouillir
>>  ensemble tant qu'il soit luysant.
>>
>>  My Poor Translation
>>  I looked in a 1611 French-English Dictionary for
>>  "claussons" and couldn't find it. So my question
>>  is, what is it?
>>  --
>>  Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]
>>  the persona formerly known as Anahita