[Sca-cooks] poll - what is a citrangula?

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Sun May 3 17:30:31 PDT 2009


A quick search in Google books finds lots of mentions.
oleum de citrangula means oil of oranges.

In
Manoscritto Lucano
By Michael Süthold
Published by Librairie Droz, 1994 on page 9
citrangula  is given as arancia amara

Johnnae

Volker Bach wrote:
> Just trying to get a quick idea of what the experts think.
> Scully says citrangula means lemon. 
> Maier says citrangula is a bitter orange.
> Both refer to fourteenth-century texts. 
> Thanks Giano
>
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