[Sca-cooks] Period food myths

[Decker, Terry D.]

> Squash is in the House of Cerruti text. It's period.

No.  These are variety of bottle gourds (Langenaria).

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

Try 1529, which is when the Portuguese introduced sweet oranges into Europe.

>
> Filberts are period. And I believe there are Old World varieties of
> walnut too. Black walnuts are not.
>
> 'Lainie is tired and needs a drink.

Junglans regia (English walnut) to be a little more precise.

The European hazelnut (or filbert) is Corylus avellana.

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