[Sca-cooks] Verjuice was Re: Next project, next recipe II.Ambroyno- price questions

[Antonia di Benedetto Calvo]

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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