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

[Volker Bach]

Am Dienstag, 17. Mai 2005 12:24 schrieb Nancy Kiel:
> Quinces have been suggested as an alternate to apples, so might a "golden
> apple" be a quince?  Do quinces grow in Italy? 

Quinces - cydones - grow just fine in Italy and are well established in Roman 
and later cookery. I don't know if they would be referred to as 'golden 
apples', though - maybe an alternative term for apple quinces, as opposed to 
pear quinces?