[Sca-cooks] Recipe to cure leprosy

[Terry Decker]

White potatoes were under cultivation in the Canary Islands before 1569 and 
were exported to Amsterdam. (Hawkes & Francisco-Ortega, 1993)

The idea that potatoes caused leprosy doesn't show up in any of the period 
texts I've reviewed.  It may be a piece of 18th Century folklore.

Bear

-----Original Message----- 
From: Susan Lord
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2015 9:30 AM
To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Recipe to cure leprosy

Do we have a medieval recipe to supposedly cured leprosy? I have read that 
black snake soup was one but know not where that recipe might be.
Also, I have read that potatoes were first thought to cause leprosy but they 
are not in period.