SC - Re: SC: Quince fruit
Lee-Gwen Booth
piglet006 at globalfreeway.com.au
Sun Apr 30 02:03:13 PDT 2000
>From Gwynydd of Culloden unto the Gathered Cooks, Greetings:
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From: Akim Yaroslavich
>I can't imagine where you are getting fresh
> quinces this time of year.
Easy answer to this one! Tasmania in Australia - your seasons are reversed.
> As to wine recommendations for period recipies, I suggest
> a sweet and fruity red like Fransia Chillable Red which is fairly
> cheap. I suspect that a lot of the period red wines were very
> fruity, moreso than todays burgundys and bourdouxs as they
> did not age their wines as we do in vintage production.
I wonder if a cask (for those who don't know, a cask is a cheap cardboard
box containing a bladder full of cheap wine - think flagons in boxes) red
Lambrusco would do? This is our usual house/cooking wine; it is lighter and
fruitier than a burgundy.
Gwynydd of Culloden - Ynys Fawr, Lochac, Kingdom of the West
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