SC - Re: A Paste of Pippins
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Fri May 8 18:25:11 PDT 1998
> To add a data point, the grocery stores around here carry a "marmelada"
> from a Portuguese company. It's made of quinces, and thick enough to
> slice thinly, almost as stiff as fruit leather.
>
> mar-Joshua ibn-Eleazar ha-Shalib
> Stephen Bloch
> sbloch at panther.adelphi.edu
> http://www.adelphi.edu/~sbloch/
> Math/CS Dept, Adelphi University
>
As a small aside, to quote Lorna Sass in To The Queen's Taste,
"The word marmalade comes from the Portuguese marmelo, meaning quince and
originally referring to a preserve of this fruit. It soon came to mean a
confection made with any cooked fruit."
Bear
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