vaznetti:mediumaevum:Medieval Food PreservationFruits were often dried, but a far more tasty method
vaznetti:mediumaevum:Medieval Food PreservationFruits were often dried, but a far more tasty method of preserving them past their season was to seal them up in honey. Occasionally, they might be boiled in a sugar mixture, but sugar was an expensive import, so only the cooks of the wealthiest families were likely to use it. Honey had been used as a preservative for thousands of years, and it wasn’t limited to preserving fruit; meats were also stored in honey on occasion.image (x)Oh, this is great! I’ve been wondering how people preserved fruit before sugar was widely available (other than by drying it, I mean). For some reason I wasn’t sure whether honey would work, although now I can’t think why.For azriona, who doubtless needs more non-porny historically relevant things to work into her fic. -- source link
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