[Sca-cooks] RE: Dogwood trees

[Volker Bach]

Diamond Randall schrieb:

> Well, the other names for the fruit are "Cornel-berries" or
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> more commonly - Cornelian cherries.  Early fruits at first
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> coloring are said to taste like a tart cherry but "somewhat
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> more austere" but as they deepen redder in the long ripening
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> season, the fruit improves in sweetness and aroma and become
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> very cherry indeed.  The ripe fruit is oval, fire-engine red and
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> has a single oval pit.  There should be a good number of ripe
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> fruit still in Central Park where there are a number of mature
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> trees.  These trees live and produce for 100-200 years
> incidentally.
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> A single tree produces 30 to 100 pounds of fruit, though some
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> cultivars have produced 200+ pounds per tree.
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> One of the little known but important to know is that the Greeks
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> will pick green fruits and boil them in vinegar to make them
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> very similar to olives.  Best of all, using both the ripe and the
> green
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> fruits is ENTIRELY PERIOD with extensive Greek, Roman and
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> medieval references (cited in Ovid, Plutarch, Columella,Gerard,
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> Parkinson, etc.)

[OT] Incidentally, if one of those trees should
fall victim to something you could always use the
wood for spear shafts as suggested by (possibly
pseudo-) Xenophon in his book on horsemanship. A
very useful tree indeed.

Giano