[Sca-cooks] "cows eyes"
Dama Antonia
dama.antonia at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 16:22:01 PDT 2012
On 10/07/2012 9:44 a.m., Suey wrote:
> In Spanish the closest plant we have is "ox eyes" (ojos de buey),
> which is a tropical plant used as medicine for Parkinson's desease and
> the like but it is not a plant for the dinner table as far as I can
> see, especially as too much is a bad thing, nor do I know if it is
> ciltivated in Spain. The "cows eye" daisy plant in English is called
> cornilla in Spanish.
>
I was under the impression that the "cows' eyes" in the Anonymous
al-Andalus were prunes. That's what the Perry translation says.
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/andalusian2.htm
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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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