[Sca-cooks] Historical Apples
Lilinah
lilinah at earthlink.net
Sun Oct 26 19:46:23 PDT 2008
Stefan wrote:
> > So, what varieties are available today (without growing one's own)
> > that are period or close to period? Are Pippins as close as we can
> > get? (crab apples are an awful lot of work for a feast)
> >
> Why are crabapples a lot of work for a feast? Because they are small?
Yes.
Now, I happen to be a fan of crab apples. When i was a child in
Illinois, we had a crab apple tree in our yard and i loved to sit
under it and eat the apples. I did not enjoy eating our pears,
however - i'm just not a big pear fan.
But in the SCA, if one is cooking for 60 or 100 or more people,
making something like apple moyse, i hate to think how many teeny
tiny crab apples one will have to peel and core to make a reasonable
amount.
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