SC - Jellies vs. aspics

[Par Leijonhufvud]

On Sat, 6 Jun 1998 geneviamoas at juno.com wrote:

> necessary to make jellies to do this or would they have prepared them
> some other way for storage? It seems to me to be a lot of investment with

Well, there is at least one berry that is simplicity itself to preserve: 
simply place in a closed container with plain water. It's the
lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idea), which contains enough benzoic acid
to preserve themselves.  Nice, if rather tart for most peoples taste. It
is also one of the sweater wild berries (666 g/kg sugars (dry weight),
with 85% water in the fresh berry). 

No idea if it was done in the middle ages, just that the method is
oldish (i.e. few hundred years, IIRC). 

/UlfR

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