[Sca-cooks] Verjuice was Re: Next project, next recipe II.Ambroyno- price questions
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
dama.antonia at gmail.com
Sat Feb 20 22:52:22 PST 2010
yaini0625 at yahoo.com wrote:
>Could you repost the fist part of your discussion on verjuice. What it is vs lemon >juice. I some how lost it off the blackberry.
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> If I am understanding correctly, verjuice is primarily green grapes or crabapples juiced to make a bitter liquid? This was different from vinegar? Was verjuice used as a flavoring or preservative?
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Not bitter. Sour. It's usually a flavouring, but I do have a 16th or
17th century recipe for cucumbers pickled in salt and verjuice.
Vinegar is produced by letting bacteria (acetobacter) ferment wine,
cider, or beer.
> As Thorvald mentioned gooseberry and sorrel is used for bitter flavoring. Are we talking about Viking food? The Saami aka Laplanders use sorrel and angelica as flavoring and as a preservative for reindeer milk. But this wouldn't be considered verjuice?
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Not bitter Sour. Sorrel was used as a verjuice source in France,
IIRC. There's not really much known about the specifics of Viking
cooking, and I personally know almost exactly nil about modern Sami cooking.
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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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