[Sca-cooks] Period food myths

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 6 Sep 2001, at 20:50, Laura C. Minnick wrote:

> Sweet oranges are not period but bitter ones are

Sweet oranges are (late) period for the Mediterranean area.  There's
a dinner menu for a Spanish archbishop (February 9, 1568) that
begins with bread, wine, and sweet oranges.


Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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