ANST - Cloven fruit

[Mark.S Harris]

Greetings from Stefan li Rous,

Jocelyn Hinkle wrote:
> > The lemon she came away with was a thing of beauty,
> > bedecked with cloves, elaborate gold pins, and purple ribbons.  We used
> > it as a ceterpiece at our feast table.  
> 
> I've always preferred them like that. Or in the case of the 4  in my
> house, more clove than fruit and hanging in the closets to keep them
> smelling nice.
>      Does the word pomander ring any bells for anyone?
> 
> Ari

This was one way fruits were used in the Middle Ages. The tradition of
passing around cloved (not cloven, cloven is a split hoove) fruit is
strictly an SCA tradition. See the file below which is in the ENTERTAINMENT
section of my Florilegium files for more details. Including comments and
appology from the lady to created the SCA game.

cloved-fruit-msg  (14K)  3/ 7/96    Period cloved fruit. Origin of the SCA game.

My files can be found at:
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/rialto/rialto.html
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