[Sca-cooks] Round one - Plum Butter
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Wed Sep 19 05:49:42 PDT 2007
> >Pardon my naivety, but if the translation calls them "sour cherries",
>>why are you using plums? I don't get the connection - which is
>>probably my inexperience with period recipes as of yet, but can you
>>explain the connection? Thank you.
>>
>> > Pflaumen Confect - Plum butter
>
> Well, the translation is my own. But the recipe TITLE is Plum confect.
> Why would Rumpolt make plum butter with cherries? Perhaps they were more
> available to him. But I'm assuming that a recipe called Plum was, at
> least sometimes, made with plums.
>
> And plums are 99 cents pound, while cherries are 3.99.
>
> Ranvaig
The term "Weichsel" is a shortened version of "Weichselkirsche." While
commonly used to refer to cherries (Kirsch) the term also refers to the
River Vistula in specific and Poland in general. I think what it being
stated is to use Polish plums.
BTW, and obsolete term for plums is Rosine, which is modern German for
raisin.
Bear
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