[Sca-cooks] Noty or Notye

[Johnna Holloway]

It's highly unlikely that lemons were ever being grown in the
British Isles in orchards during the Middle Ages.
Lemons are cold sensitive-- that means they cannot grow
in northern climes.
Here's an article that addresses the fact that they have
problems growing them in Arizona today--
http://www.tucsongardener.com/Year98/novdec98/frost.htm
Here's one on growing them in Texas--
http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/citrus/lemons.htm
So given these facts---What exactly leads you to believe that  they grew 
Lemons
in Britain in the middle ages? Do you think that Britain was
all that tropical during the medieval period?

Johnnae llyn Lewis

Chris Stanifer wrote:

>--- lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
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>>There is a big difference between showing that 
>>lemons were used in England in the period in 
>>which Middle English was spoken and written and 
>>showing that lemons existed in other times and 
>>places...
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>True enough.  I'm still trying to track down ship manifests and monastic records of the time, just
>to see if I can find a reference to the lemon or citron in Europe (England).  Another source which
>I haven't hit on yet is information on estate orchards, or even Royal orchards of the time.  This
>may seem like a case of 'backwards documentation', but it is more a curious examination to see if
>lemons were used with any regularity during the time in question.  The lack of documentation in
>recipes of the time is not an indication that the lemon was not widely used.  Merely that it was
>not used in the written recipes we have available.
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>William de Grandfort
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