[Sca-cooks] Citron

[Stefan li Rous]

Bear replied to me with:
> Stefan, you can't infer that citron is actually being called for from 
> the
> recipes in Platina.  He was translating recipes from Italian into 
> Latin and
> there are no Latin words for the various citrus fruits other than 
> citron
> (which arrived in the Mediterranean basin in the 4th Century BCE).  The
> recipes need to be compared to the original Italian recipes by Martino
> Rossi.  I believe you will find the chicken recipe actually calls for
> (Seville) oranges in the original.
Yes, there is commentary in my file that covers this. But I'm not sure 
the info given there is definative. At least not such that I wanted to 
keep this possible citron recipe from Anahita. That is one reason that 
I quoted both the Platina recipe and Millham's translation. In fact she 
says lemon or verjuice. So that gives three possible interpretatons, 
orange, lemon or citron.

Stefan
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