SC - Re: verjuice

[Elaine Koogler]

thanks for the information...I have already looked at one site, and fear that, for
the purpose I have in mind, it may be a little much.  I will be baking 80 of the pies
from Platina, "Anothr Crust of Tamed Creatures"...otherwise known as Chicken and
Cherry pies.  I calculated it all out, and to get what I need would run around
$130...just for the verjuice.  What I may do is order a couple of bottles from them,
taste it and try to get as close to the taste as I can with my own combination of
ingredients.  I may also ask them if they would give me a discount if I purchase a
large amount...who knows, maybe they would.  Of course I still have to pay for
shipping from California!  And who knows...I may not even be able to get it
anyway...Maryland has a law against shipping wine, etc. in from a winery...all such
purchases have to go through the Maryland warehouses.  If the state sees a large
shipment coming in from a winery, they may stop it.  I'll just have to try it out and
see.

Thanks for all of your suggestions...they are very helpful!

Kiri

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Kiri commented:
> > I agree, and even though I may not be able to get the right kind of grapes now,
> > it would be handy to know what to do with them when I do get them...if I can
> > talk a vineyard out of letting me have some!
>
> It is my feeling that in period the grapes used in verjuice were the
> green ones that had to be culled from the vines anyway. Used in verjuice
> they had more value than as animal feed or compost.
>
> I suspect the case may be true for modern vineyards. The main problem
> may be in convincing them that it is worth dealing with in the quantities
> you or others want than their usual disposal methods.
>
> >From another message by Kiri,
> > I agree with what you are saying, but until we can get vintners to
> > produce things like verjuice and sappa, we will have to "make do"
> > with the substitutions ...
>
> And there are a few vineyards that are making verjuice and selling it
> commercially. So you can get it, but the price may not be as low as
> you might like. But then at one time, Grains of Paradise and other
> "medieval" spices were difficult to get, too. Now there are a number
> of places that sell these spices, just generally not your local grocery.
>
> As mentioned before, there are some verjuice merchants mentioned in
> this file in the FOOD section of the Florilegium. I still think "real"
> verjuice may be workable instead of the substitutes.
> verjuice-msg      (62K)  3/30/01    Medieval verjuice. Modern substitutions.
> --
> THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
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