[Sca-cooks]Mock Apple Pie?

Terry Decker t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Fri Jan 30 05:38:39 PST 2004


>>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?
>
>'Lainie

And while I don't have a clue as to the quality of Normandy cider, it is the
base for Calvados, an apple brandy, which is (and probably was in late SCA
period) more widely exported than any equivalent English apple product.

Bear




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