Redaction of historic recipes (mainly Middle Eastern and Roman). Historically period dishes are incredibly tasty, just requires a little experimentation and having a lot of fun cooking!
The English ‘gherkin’, related to the German ‘Gurke’ meaning both cucumber and gherkin refers to cucumbers though the actual gherkin is a long rough skinned type of cucumber. (Toussaint-Samat, pp. 529). The cucumber is...