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Eringoes

Posted August 2019 
by Stephen Schmidt 

Candied roots of eryngo, a common name for Eryngium, a genus of flowering plants that includes hundreds of different species. In early modern England eringoes were believed to be aphrodisiacs and were popularly known as “kissing comfits.”

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