[Sca-cooks] Viking recipes site
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at att.net
Sat Jan 18 18:33:11 PST 2014
The issue is not cider but apple brandy. Brandy is a distillate.
Distillation in Europe starts about the 12th Century and only becomes
widespread in the 14th Century. BTW, the first known production of calvados
is mid-16th Century.
The Viking period ran from the end of the 8th Century to the nid-11th
Century. Since Vikings and distillation don't overlap temporally, a Viking
recipe using apple brandy is of questionable validity.
The question here is not one of cultural possibility, but of historical
accuracy.
Bear
> Dunno. Cider and calvados are specialties of Normandy which was settled by
> Vikings and cider at least began its dominance within a few centuries of
> their occupation.
>
> So it might depend on how wide a cultural net you spread.
>
> Jim Chevallier
> (http://www.chezjim.com/) www.chezjim.com
>
> Les Leftovers: sort of a food history blog
> leslefts.blogspot.com
>
>
> In a message dated 1/18/2014 5:06:42 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> ddfr at daviddfriedman.com writes:
>
> "cider (or better yet, apple brandy)"
>
> which suggests that the authors are not taking the idea of plausible
> reconstruction very seriously
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