[Sca-cooks] Period food myths

[david friedman]

>Ok- I missed the beginning of this thread. Is this things that are *not*
>period, or so you think? Because AFAIK-
>
>Squash is in the House of Cerruti text. It's period.

No.

The pictures in the House of Cerruti text look like squash, but since
they are from before Columbus and all of what we call squash comes
from the New World, they aren't. A likely guess is Lageneria Sicereia
(sp?), the white flowered gourd, which is old world. It's still used
in Chinese cooking, so it's possible to get it.

>Sweet oranges are not period but bitter ones are, and so are lemons
>(awfully hard to make those lovely lemon syrup jalabs without, yes?).

Sweet oranges are late period, so references before about the
sixteenth century are to sour oranges (Naranjiya, for example).
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