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

[Irmgart]

Scuppernongs are a greenish gold color when ripe, and they aren't much 
changed from antiquity. However, they don't really count as they are new 
world grapes (and in season now!!!)

-Irmgart

On 9/9/05, Robin Carroll-Mann <rcmann4 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> -----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.
> _______________________________________________
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 
> Brighid ni Chiarain
> Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
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