SC - cranberries bogged me down

[LYN M PARKINSON]

Nanna,

Is there documentation for the growth of cranberries in Scandinavia?  I'd
like it, and so would my Viking friends.  So far as you know, would there
be any reason, good or bad, to throw or not throw cranberries into your
barley pottage?

Without the written recipes, we have to reply for written mentions of
food and a plausible use for various stuffs.

Regards,

Allison
allilyn at juno.com, Barony Marche of the Debatable Lands, Pittsburgh, PA
Kingdom of Aethelmearc

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:34:41 -0000
"=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nanna_R=F6gnvaldard=F3ttir?=" <nannar at isholf.is> writes:
>Allison wrote:
>
>>The dish that Tirza cooked to go with it was based on some of Nanna's
>>comments last year on grain porridges, and on a friendly Viking's
>>research that cranberries were grown in Iceland.
>
>I´m not so sure about that. Cranberries (European variety) grow wild 
>in
>Scandinavia, not here. And I´m fairly certain they were never 
>cultivated
>here. The only edible berries that grow wild here are blueberries (a 
>small
>variety), crowberries (these two types in abundance), bilberries, 
>stone
>bramble and wild strawberries (rare).
>
>Nanna
>
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