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The part of hops used for culinary purposes is usually the shoots, which are treated in the same way as asparagus, butcher's broom and other similar vegetables. In Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi sulla Materia Medica di Dioscoride we read that the flowers, used in Italy only in medicine, are considered fundamental for the preparation of beer in other countries.

Coltivasi i lupuli nei campi con grandissima diligenza in Germania, Boemia, Polonia e altri luoghi settentrionali per farne la cervosa, imperocché senza i follicoli loro non si può fare.

"Hops are cultivated very diligently in the fields in Germany, Bohemia, Poland, and other northern countries for the production of beer, because without their flowers it can not be made."

For more information about vegetables in historical Italian cooking check out our book Early Italian Recipes. Vegetables, fruit, herbs, and flowers.
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