[Sca-cooks] Period apple varieties

[Carole Smith]

I was perusing Kenelm Digbie's Closet Opened this morning and found a recipe where pippins are used.  Digbie went on to state that he preferred John-Apples above pippins.
 
Does anyone happen to know what a John-Apple was like?
 
thanx,
 
Cordelia Toser
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
:
lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> Has anyone ever seen a copy of Le Bastiment de Receptes? It's the 
> French translation, published in 1541, of a Venetian confectionery 
> manual (name unknown to me) which was published a few months 
> earlier... Or for that matter, if anyone knows of that Venetian 
> confectionery manual... but i at least can read French...

I don't know if this is the same book... there's a 1552 book by that 
title online at:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/document?O=N054458

If you click on "telecharger" you can download the whole thing.

-- 
Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
Robin Carroll-Mann *** rcmann4 at earthlink.net

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