[Sca-cooks] 14th Century Food Imports
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Sat May 6 20:58:58 PDT 2006
In the early 14th Century, the following items were being bought and sold in
the markets of Constantinople. The containers were usually considered tare
to be subtracted from the gross weight of the sale. Bear
By the cantar (150 Genoese pounds)
suet in jars
broken almonds in bags
honey in kegs or skins
rice by the bag
Dried figs of Majorca and Spain in hampers
Cummin in bag
Pistachios in bag
Saltmeat
cheese
chestnuts
By the hunderdweight (100 Genoese pounds)
round pepper
ginger
sugar
powdered sugar
cinnamon
mastic
By the pound
saffron
clove stalks and cloves
cubebs
rhubarb
mace
long pepper
galangal
nutmegs
spike (spikenard?)
cardamoms
By other measures
dates
filberts
walnuts
salted sturgeon tails
salt
oil of Venice
oil of the March
oil of Apulia
oil of Gaeta, etc
wheat
barley
wine of Greece
wine of Turpia in Calabria
wine of Patti in Sicily
wine of Patti in Apulia
wine of Cutrone in Calabria
wine of the March
wine of Crete
wine of Romania
country wine
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