Egg scrambled with acidic fruit juices were popular in France in the 17th century; this may have been the origin of lemon curd. The dried egg industry developed in the 19th century, before the rise of the frozen egg industry.
Glycyrrhiza is a genus of about 20 accepted species in the legume family , with a subcosmopolitan distribution in Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas. The genus is best known for liquorice (British English; licorice in American English), G. glabra, a species native to Eurasia and North Africa, from which most confectionery liquorice is produced.
Liquorice, or licorice, (/ËlÉªkáµrÉªÊ/ LIK-(É-)rish or /ËlÉªkáµrÉªs/ LIK-(É-)ris) is the root of Glycyrrhiza glabra from which a sweet flavour can be extracted.he word liquorice is derived (via the Old French licoresse) from the Greek Î³Î»ÏÎºÏÏÏÎ¹Î¶Î± (glukurrhiza), meaning sweet root, from Î³Î»ÏÎºÏÏ (glukus), sweet + á¿¥Î¯Î¶Î± (rhiza), root, the name provided by Dioscorides.