[Sca-cooks] greengage plums

[Mark Hendershott]

At 07:10 AM 7/15/04 -0500, Bear wrote:
>Greengage plums are a variety of plum having skin color of greenish yellow
>or yellowish green.  They are named after Sir William Gage, an 18th Century
>botanist, so I suspect they may be a post period hybrid.

The modern tree could well be a post period hybrid but it would very likely 
develop from a yellow plum, possibly a native.  I have a native plum 
(Klamath Plum, native to Western US) in my backyard.  It is yellow but some 
other specimens around town are red.  It would not surprise me to learn the 
both yellow and red plums were known to our ancestors.

Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir


>Bear
>
>
> >Well, there are some period plum recipes in this Florilegium file, but
>nothing on *greengage* plums. How do greengage plums differ from other
>plums?
> >plums-msg         (24K)  2/ 6/04    Period plums and plum recipes.
> >http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-FRUITS/plums-msg.html
> >
> >Stefan
>
>
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