[Sca-cooks] period fruit trees

[lilinah at mail.earthlink.net]

Vincent Cuenca" <bootkiller at hotmail.com> wrote:
>Actually, what I'm doing is tracking down things for this bedratted
>confectioner's manual.  The work mentions small oranges, quinces, lemons,
>peaches, apples and Genovese cherries, among other things.  I'd like to be
>able to narrow down the varieties a bit.  I'm guessing they weren't growing
>Bing cherries in Genoa in 1450, so what kind were they?  That's what I gotta
>figure out.

I don't know about Genoa, but the German cookbooks from around this
time appear to specify Morello cherries.

Anahita