SC - White pomegranates?

[Decker, Terry D.]

Root comments on pomegranates, that they come in the colors gold, red, green
and white.  Other comments suggest the taste is not related to the color,
but that you may have a range of tastes within a color as there are with
cherries.  Root also suggests that the problem of the sourness of
pomegranates is that ornamentation was chosen over taste outside of the
countries that commonly eat pomegranates.

Bear

> I don't know.  Period sources actually refer to three kinds of 
> pomegranates: sweet, sour, and sweet-sour ("agradulces").  The 
> _Obra de Agricultura_ has a chapter on pomegranates, but says 
> nothing about differences in color, only that they are classified by 
> flavor.
> 
> Nola has many recipes that call for pomegranates and 
> pomegranate juice, and he also identifies them by the three flavor 
> categories.  The only exception is this one recipe for cameline 
> sauce, which says to take "granadas albares" which are white 
> pomegranates.  If 16th century pomegranates had the same 
> characteristics as the modern ones, perhaps this would be a sub-
> category of sweet pomegranates -- extra-sweet.
> 
> 
> Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
> Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
> mka Robin Carroll-Mann
> harper at idt.net
>