[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 71, Issue 46

[David Friedman]

At Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:33:51 -0400, Galefridus Peregrinus wrote:
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>Char les Perry has stated that almost any time oranges are used in medieval Islamic recipes, it's actually the bitter orange that should be used. So you've got a good selection of recipes to play around with from places like al-Baghdadi and al-Warraq.
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The sweet orange gets to that part of the world, as best I recall, about the 15th century, and the usual Islamic sources are earlier than that (except ibn al-mubarrad, which might just make it). That's why we planted two Seville orange trees.


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