[Sca-cooks] Any references to peaches being used in period brewing?

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Quite eerily, I was just writing on a closely related issue for this week's 
 blog post.
 
In France at least it is striking that pears, apples and mulberries were  
used for cider or alternate 'wines', but not for instance plums or sloe, 
which  archeology shows to have been very popular. Nor peaches, which were 
originally  an import, unlike the others (and which, strangely, appear in digs 
more  frequently than the native fruits). So the most likely answer is no, 
peaches  were not used, nor in fact was almost anything else besides grapes, 
pears,  apples and mulberries. And cider overall took until almost the end of 
the Middle  Ages to gain any importance.
 
Jim  Chevallier
_www.chezjim.com_ (http://www.chezjim.com/) 

Stumbling through  history towards beer
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/stumbling-through-history-towards-beer.
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In a message dated 4/17/2014 9:21:17 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
StefanliRous at gmail.com writes:

However,  the author could not find any use of peaches in period brewing. 
No peach  cider, for instance.