[Sca-cooks] Citron

[Terry Decker]

>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

I'm a little busy getting ready for my last day of work, so I can't dig out
Milham, but as I recall, there is a footnote discussing the differences
between Martino's recipe and Platina's translation.  As Platina is copying
Martino's recipes, I would hold that Martino is the definitive source.

Bear