[Sca-cooks] Grapes (was Chekyns in browet)

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>

Were there even green, ripe grapes in period? The only green when  
ripe grapes I know of today are seedless ones, and I assume those are  
a modern hybrid.
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De Nola has one recipe which calls for three bunches of "white" grapes and two bunches of "black".  (Likewise, figs are divided into white and black varieties.)   These are not unripe grapes -- the term for those is "agraz"  -- and the same word is used for the juice of unripe grapes.

I don't know what "green" means in the case of the English recipe that Lainie quoted.

Is there a viticulturist in the house?



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Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom