[Sca-cooks] Grapefruit...

[Stefan li Rous]

Gorgeous Muiredach the Odd asked:
>> > Obviously, changing Drakey's name to Master Ebenezer Pampelmusse will
>> > be mere child's play to one of my powers...
>>
>>Except that grapefruit are not period, O Great One.
>
> They aren't???  They weren't growing *anywhere* in our time period?  If
> not, where were they developped?  When?

Nope. they are a post-1600 hybrid. See this file in the Florilegium
for more details:

fruit-citrus-msg  (45K)  3/26/01    Period citrus fruits. Recipes.

Of course, rather than guessing which modern fruits are period, you
could work it from the other direction :-)

Period-Fruit-art  (60K)  1/13/02    "Fruit of Period Times" by Baron
                                       Akim Yaroslavich.
(A good cataloging of "period" fruits)


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