[Sca-cooks] Simple and Authentic

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> I don't think olives grow very well in any part of
> the Kievan Rus (checking school atlas - nope, the
> northern boundary of modern olive cultivation
> skirts the southern Black Sea coast), but olive
> oil was a trade good in the later middle ages
> (witness many period German and English cookbooks)
> and anyone involved in trade would be able to get
> their hands on it, through Novgorod or the Black
> Sea ports. Where you can take olive oil you can
> take pickled olives . . . so now you need a reason
> for your persona to want to.

I have not found anything in the Domostroi about pickled olives. Anyone
else?

-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa
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