SC - Fruit Query

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Lady Lucrezia-Isabella di Freccia wrote:
>I was browsing through the Tacuinum Sanitatis last night and came across an
>entry of "jujubes", a small fruit (the picture shows 2 people knocking plum
>sized fruits off a tree). Is this a name for some other fruit? I've never
>heard of it before.

Etymology:
Middle English, jujube fruit, from Old French, from Medieval Latin 
jujuba, from Latin zizyphum, from Greek zizuphon.

http://www.crfg.org/pubs/ff/jujube.html
http://www.vegweb.com/glossary/docs/80.shtml
The text on these two pages is similar but not identical - they have 
different recipes, too.

http://www.eat-it.com/jujube.htm

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/j/jujube10.html
has the entry from Mrs. Grieve's Modern Herbal from earlier in the 20th century

Apparently there is also commercial jujube honey from New Zealand and 
jujube wine from China.

I have seen the fresh fruit for sale in Asian food markets (around 
here we cover from Southwest Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, East 
Asia, and the various Pacific Islands)

Anahita al-shazhiyya