[Sca-cooks] Lemons in Middle English

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> You may want to try  His Royal Majesties Navy (Pick a Monarch) medical
> records. As limes and lemons were thought of as one of the remedies for
> scurvy. Which would tend to lend to their usage in military cooking often
> ahead of civilian cooking in new ideas. Of course that would tend to show
up
> after the English began long voyages.
>  Da

As I understand it, use and discovery of lemons and limes as remedies for
scurvy is relatively recent- Brandu, would you care to comment?

Saint Phlip,
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