[Sca-cooks] Elizabethan chickeny goodness

David Friedman ddfr at daviddfriedman.com
Wed May 19 19:48:09 PDT 2010


>I skipped the sugar on the theory that the oranges in the original 
>recipe were probably sour oranges (since the other option is lemons),

Do we know at what point "oranges" in recipes shifted its default 
meaning from sour to sweet? By Elizabethan times sweet oranges were 
available, but I have no idea how commonly they were used.
-- 
David/Cariadoc
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