[Sca-cooks] plums
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sun Jun 4 13:02:24 PDT 2006
Selene commented:
<<< I want a big bucket of the red ones to do more plum wine, the
last batch
[which I hoard fervently] came out better than the best plum wine you
ever
had at a Japanese restaurant. My mother calls them ?Italian plums?
but I
wonder if they are not actually Japanese, particularly the golden
ones. >>>
Plums were grown in Europe.
plums-msg (34K) 5/13/06 Period plums and plum recipes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-FRUITS/plums-msg.html
Perhaps some of those recipes might also be of interest to you.
I've heard of plum wine before, but it has always been mentioned in
connection to Japan.
Do we have evidence of plum wine being made in medieval Europe?
Perhaps it just that a lot more grapes were grown than plums, so
grape wine was more prevalent? Does/did Japan grow grapes? If not,
perhaps that would also be a reason that plum wines are more
associated with Japan.
Stefan
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