[Sca-cooks] Noty or Notye

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Chris Stanifer wrote:

>--- Robin Carroll-Mann <rcmann4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
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>>Not a linguistic flame (not a flame, actually), but a culinary comment.  
>>I would be *very* surprised to see lemon juice in a recipe written in 
>>Middle English.  Even in the Mediterranean corpus, there's very little 
>>use of lemon until late period. 
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>[snip]
>The above citation is from an online article written by Clifford A Wright.
>http://www.cliffordawright.com/history/lemonade.html 
>
>I have also heard that the Greeks may well have been cultivating lemons within our early period of
>interest.
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>
>William de Grandfort
>
I'm sorry -- I was being imprecise.  By "Mediterranean corpus" I meant 
the medieval Spanish and Italian cookbooks with which I am familiar.  
(This includes the "Anonymous Andalusian".)  I don't deny that lemons 
were known and used in some places during SCA period.  I would still be 
astonished to find lemon juice in a 14th or 15th century English recipe.

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