may I ask what the method is for turning the drabapples into verjuice?  I
have a large crabapple tree in my yard and have always just let the
apples go.  would be nice to use them for something.  I can only eat so
much jelly<g>.

joy

radei

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Stefan li Rous"
  To: "SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks"
  Subject: [Sca-cooks] verjuice
  Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:01:22 -0500

  >
  > Eibhlin commented:
  > > And back to cooking, I'm going to try and turn some of
  > > these culls into apple verjus. We'll see how much
  > > I'll be able to get out of the little buggers, and how
  > > willing I'll be to do it again next year!
  >
  > Interesting. Please keep us informed on how your experiment goes.
  > The only two fruits though that I remember being used for period
  > verjuice were unripe grapes and crabapples. However, I can't see
  > folks in the Middle Ages letting these culls go to waste. Other
  > than feeding them to the pigs, I'm not sure how else the unripe
  > apples would have been used.
  >
  > Stefan
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