[Sca-cooks] bitter orange recipes
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Mon Apr 2 17:18:17 PDT 2012
Seville (or bitter) oranges that would have been used in this recipe are
Citrus aurantium. Blood oranges are a mutation of C. sinensis, the sweet
orange, and are considered to produce the best orange juice. Sweet oranges
were introduced into the Mediterranean between the later half of the 15th
Century and the first quarter of the 16th Century (I lean more toward the
latter from the dates of the Portuguese trade with India). Sweet oranges
are referred to as Portugals in parts of the Middle East, so they probably
arrived there via the Portuguese trade. So, blood oranges occur in the
region later than the recipe and are definitely sweeter than the Seville
oranges for which the recipe calls.
Bear
> are blood oranges sour enough?
>
> Bonne
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:39 PM, David Friedman
> <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>wrote:
>
>> We made Naranjiya, from al-Baghdadi, recently, using seville oranges from
>> our little tree, which produced its first significant crop this
>> year--enough, I think, for about two recipes of naranjiya. It's not bad,
>> although I like Mishmishiya, the apricot equivalent from the same source,
>> better.
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