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[[File:Szparagi w occie.jpg|thumb|upright=.5|Aspragaus which I pickled in a fashion inspired by Syrenius's recipe]]
"Disturbed, shaken, uncertain," we begin to doubt the realism of the epic's setting. But no, "such master errs not!"<ref>Mickiewicz, ''op. cit.'', Book 12, verse 710</ref> It's perfectly possible to defend the presence of asparagus in early September. After all, the poet didn't specify that it was fresh asparagus. And the art of pickling asparagus had been known in Poland for ages. Here's a recipe for vinegar-pickled asparagus from a 17th-century herbal writting by a famous Polish Renessaissance Renaissance botanist, Prof. Simon Syrenius (Szymon Syreński):
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