Flowers redux
The Urth list — 2 messages, 2 voices, 21 Jul 1999
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Alice Turner — 21 Jul 1999, 23:29

Oh, one thing more. Why, you may ask, am I trying to make something
Shakespearean out of what might be an ordinary kitchen herb garden. Well,
the clue is rue. Rue simply isn't grown as an herb any more. It's a very
bitter herb that I think may still be used to flavor a rather nasty Italian
aperitif (could that be Byrrh?). But it was used as a purgative and a plague
deterent in Shakespeare's time. And also in witchcraft, possibly as an
abortifacent, I think.

-alga

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Matthew Malthouse — 22 Jul 1999, 10:38
  follows, by subject match Alice Turner

> Alice Turner wrote:
> 
> Oh, one thing more. Why, you may ask, am I trying to make something
> Shakespearean out of what might be an ordinary kitchen herb garden. Well,
> the clue is rue. Rue simply isn't grown as an herb any more. It's a very
> bitter herb that I think may still be used to flavor a rather nasty Italian
> aperitif (could that be Byrrh?). But it was used as a purgative and a plague
> deterent in Shakespeare's time. And also in witchcraft, possibly as an
> abortifacent, I think.

Aha! You may not grow rue in your herb garden but some people still
do, myself included. I believe that it has a use in aromatherapy an
herbal medicine. About the only use I make of it is in pork sausages
where it cuts the sweet, fat flavours with its bitter taste.  

Oh, and it's pretty.  :)

Matthew

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