[Sca-cooks] viking food and fall fruit

[Susan Fox-Davis]

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>For fall fruit, I would use late-season berries -- blackberries and maybe
>raspberries. Possibly dried apricots. Also nuts are good -- specifically
>hazelnuts. I think any grapes would have been reserved for wine, rather than
>eaten as fruit.
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>Cynara
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I might beg to differ there.  Things like dried fruit are often the only 
sweetening agents available.  I'm thinking, like the raisins in a plum 
duff, later on at sea.  Just thinking out loud here.

Selene