[Sca-cooks] Blueberry/ Gooseberry Wine Documentation?
Robin Carroll-Mann
rcmann4 at earthlink.net
Mon Jan 19 18:01:36 PST 2004
On 19 Jan 2004, at 9:37, david friedman wrote:
> >De Nola mentions sour pomegranate wine ("vino de granadas agras" -- wine
> >made from sour pomegranates).
> >Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
>
> Is it possible that "vino" is being used loosely for an unfermented
> fruit juice? Pomegranate juice (both sweet and sour) is mentioned in
> the 13th c. Andalusian Manuscrito Anonimo.
I wouldn't think so, because there are many other references to pomegranate
juice ("jugo de granadas") in the same work. I checked it against the 1520
Catalan edition, and that same recipe says "vi" (Catalan for "wine").
I just did a little poking around the Web, and a search on "vino de granadas"
brought up an interesting reference. There is an online transcription of a
1551 health manual, the "Libro del Regimen de Salud" by Luis Lobera de
Avila.
http://www.ucm.es/info/folchia/LOBERA3.htm
He says that in some cases, before bleeding a patient, the person should be
given a sop in pomegranate wine or in verjuice ("sopa en vino de granadas o
en agraz").
My guess would be that pomegranate wine was used medicinally, and as a
souring ingredient in cooking, but I have not found any evidence that it was
used as a beverage.
Brighid ni Chiarain *** mka Robin Carroll-Mann
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
rcmann4 at earthlink.net
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