SC - Plums period?
Terry Nutter
gfrose at cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu
Wed Aug 6 15:57:23 PDT 1997
Hi, Katerine here. Shirley asks about Italian plums. I have no idea
about the variety, but plums were certainly known and eaten. They are
referred to in English recipes as prunes (which are indeed plums, not
the dried things we mean), bolas, or damsyns. In Curye on Inglysch,
they occur in the following recipes:
Diuersa Cibaria 49 Qwite plumen (White Plums)
Diuersa Seruicia 76 Porreyne
Forme of Cury 98 Erbowle (Bolas, i.e., Plums)*
Forme of Cury 166 Leche frys in Lenten
Forme of Cury 172 Tartee
Forme of Cury 175 Tart de brymlent (Tart for Lent)*
Forme of Cury 177 Tartletes
* Other versions of the same recipe occur in Harley 279
(first MS in Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books) PD 104
& 105, and Harley 5401 #53.
** Another version in Arundel 334, on pg. 357 of the
Society of Antiquaries/Nichols printing.
Cheers,
- -- Katerine/Terry
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