[Sca-cooks] Medieval and/or Middle EasternRecipies containingTomatoes

[Nancy Kiel]

Quinces have been suggested as an alternate to apples, so might a "golden apple" be a quince?  Do quinces grow in Italy?
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Myers<mailto:eduard at medievalcookery.com> 
  To: Cooks within the SCA<mailto:sca-cooks at ansteorra.org> 
  Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 9:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Medieval and/or Middle EasternRecipies containingTomatoes



  On May 16, 2005, at 8:53 AM, Johnna Holloway wrote:

  > I don't have the time to dig into this at the moment. I have  
  > another medical appointment
  > this am and I have to leave for that.
  >
  > There has always been this nagging bother that certain reference books
  > have listed that they had pomidoros (the tomato) in Italy in like  
  > the 12th century.

  Linguistic side note:  "pomidoros" makes me think of "pomme d'or" -  
  French for "golden apple".

  Huh.  Babelfish says that the Italian for "golden apple" is "mela  
  dorata", and that "pomi dora" is "knobs gild".  "pomidoros" as all  
  one word doesn't translate.

  - Doc


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