[Sca-cooks] period apple commerce

[Stefan li Rous]

'Lainie replied to me with:
> > And on a more medieval note, were apples not exported from the apple
> > growing areas in Europe to other parts during the Middle Ages? Or 
> even
> > cider? Wine did get exported from France to England, was English 
> cider
> > not shipped the other direction?
>
> There was plenty of cider in Normandy and Anjou. Why import it?
Perhaps for the same reasons the English imported French wine even 
though they grew grapes and made wine in England?

So, was English (or French) cider exported out of the area it was made 
in, in the Middle Ages?

Stefan
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