[Sca-cooks] Lemons in Middle English

[Bill Fisher]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 12:22:35 -0500, Bill Fisher <liamfisher at gmail.com> wrote:

> I brought this book up because this text in of itself is a post Interregnum work
> that was supposed to exemplify how the nobles ate in the times before Cromwell
> had his fun with English society.  If lemons had been a large part of
> the society's
> cuisine, Rabisha would have dug that up along with the other recipes
> in this book
> as he strove to bring back those days.  I don't think Cromwell would have driven
> lemons out of England with the royalty.
> 

I love replying to myself....

I forgot that  William Rabisha followed Charles II into exile while
Charles I was
being held and executed by Parliament.  Charles II was down Scilly,
Jersey and then France, and Scotland, returning to England when Monck
opened the doors for him to return in 1660, just in time for his
birthday.  By then
Charles II had already been crowned king of Scotland, Wales, and some parts
of England in Scone

So I am thinking they picked up the lemon recipes in France, dunno, I
just wanted
to illustrate that Rabisha had "been around the block" while he was working on 
his texts.

Cadoc
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