SC - period lime use, rosaries

[Jenne Heise]

> 
> Daniel Raoul said:
> > I will be entering two displays in our Kingdom A/S next week.  One will be
> > "culinary" the other not.  Regards  the culinary display it will be
> > skanjabins and citrus syrups.  I will have three citrus syrups, lime, lemon,
> > and sour orange, and one and possibly two skanjabin type syrups.  In part it
> > is, quite frankly, to provide and publicize period alternatives to alcoholic
> > beverages.  
> 
> Did you find any evidence of use of limes in period? Where and when? Did
> you find evidence of them used in beverages? Or is this based on "They 
> had lemons and made lemon drinks and they had limes so there for they
> likely made lime juice based drinks..."? I made a lime syrup drink last
> year when I did my Royalty luncheon, but didn't have proof that this
> would be done in period. So, more evidence at all for lime use would be
> interesting.
>  
> > The second display will be the construction of period rosaries.   I've done
> > a reproduction of a 16th century German one in antique ivory and bone that
> > is spot on for one in a photograph and a late 15th early 16th century
> > Flemish one in amber and antique ivory that is a good speculative
> > reconstruction of one in a Flemish painting.  
> 
> I would like to consider your documentation on the rosaries for inclusion
> in the Florilegium if you are interested.
> 
> For those interested in some information about the rosary and making
> the rose-beads that they were sometimes made of, check this file in the
> RELIGION section of the Florilegium:
> rosaries-msg      (52K) 12/ 8/00    Period rosaries and their use.
> Making rose 
>                                        beads.
> -- 
> THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
> **** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****
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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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