[Sca-cooks] turpentine taste

[Erika Thomenius]

>From: "Harris Mark.S-rsve60" <Mark.s.Harris at motorola.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: "SCA-Cooks maillist (E-mail)" <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] turpentine taste
>Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 17:42:17 -0700
>
>Phlip commented:
>I'm willing to bet there is
>commentary about not using pine wood for a roasting
>fire- I rather doubt Medeval people liked turpentine
>flavored food any more than we do ;-)
>
>To which Margali replied:
>So how the hell do you explain Retsina wine?

And chewing gum made of pine sap was quite popular in medieval Finland.
They even had special tools to harvest the stuff.  (Check out _From Viking
to Crusader_ by Else Roesdahl.)

-Gytha "But it probably sticks to your dental work" Karlsdotter


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