[Sca-cooks] Pineapples

[MD Smith]

Do we know how they were eaten? Raw? Baked? Stewed? Were they perceived
to be a fruit (like a strawberry) or a vegetable (like an artichoke)?

Just as a wild speculation, would/could the idea be supported that the
Spanish Ambassador to England gave them as a gift, or had their cook
prepare them for a meal in their quarters at the English Court? What
about Queen Catherine? She was a Spaniard.

MD/Marged

"Decker, Terry D." wrote:
>
> It would probably be more correct to use pineapple in a Spanish or
> Portuguese feast of the same date rather than Tudor or Elizabethean.
> Pineapples were found primarily on the mainland in Brazil.  They show up in
> Europe around 1517 contemporary with the explorations of the South American
> coast.
>
> Some sources credit Christopher Columbus with bring pineapples to Europe on
> his first voyage, but I haven't found snything to support that.
>
> BTW, pineapple was also used to describe pine cones.
>
> Bear
>
> >
> >  I now know
> > that pineapple is period....late period, but I could use it in a late
> > Tudor/Elizabethan feast and be perfectly correct!
> >
> > Kiri
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