[Sca-cooks] Melons in England

[Johnna Holloway]

Artworks include
Cotan's Quince, Cabbage, Melon & Cucumber (1600) Credit: San Diego 
Museum of Art                     
http://www.suite101.com/view_image.cfm/360562
Aertsen click on the small painting to enlarge. I think the one is a melon.
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/aertsen/vegetable-stall/
http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/aertsen/vendor-vegetable.jpg

Then also take a look at The Four Elements: Earth. A Fruit and Vegetable 
Market with the Flight into Egypt in the Background'
*1569 by Joachim Beuckelaer *Sixteen different varieties of vegetable 
and fruit have been identified.
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/education/ITT/earth.html
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/cgi-bin/WebObjects.dll/CollectionPublisher.woa/wa/work?workNumber=ng6585

Here's instructions for a tart of Roman melons

This is an excerpt from *Ouverture de Cuisine*
(France, 1604 - Daniel Myers, trans.)
The original source can be found at MedievalCookery.com 
<http://www.medievalcookery.com/notes/ouverture.shtm>

To make a tart of Roman melons. Take a melon that is not at all 
overripe, & wash it well within & without, & finely chop, then take four 
ounces of good fat cheese, two ounces of sugar, a quarter ounce of 
cinnamon, & a nutmeg, & make the tart like the others, when cooked, 
sprinkle sugar thereon, & color with nutmeg.

Johnnae

Barbara Benson wrote:
> Excellent!! (Mr. Burns voice)
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:
>   
>> See my article
>> "Regarding *Watermelons*" by THL Johnnae llyn Lewis.
>> It's in the Florilegium already.
>>
>> Johnnae
>