[Sca-cooks] Blood oranges, etc.

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>Do we have any evidence that blood oranges are period, and if so 
>that they are period in Europe? Sweet oranges only reach Europe near 
>the end of our period? A quick web search finds the claim that they 
>are "most likely the result of a mutation that occurred in 17th 
>century Sicily."
>
Good point, I had seen them discussed here and took it for granted 
that they were period, but it doesn't seem to be so.  Thank you.

Ranvaig