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A delicious orange fruit.
This is made two Ways, viz. either by infuſing the Apricots cut in
Pieces in Brandy for a Day or two, and then paſſing it thro' the draining
Bag, and putting in the uſual Ingredients; or elſe the Apricots may be
boil'd in White wine, and by that Means more eaſily clarify'd adding an
equal Quantity of Brandy, and a quarter of a pound of Sugar to every quart,
with Cinnamon, Cloves, Mace, and Kernels of the Apricots. After all
the Ingredients have infuſed eight or ten Days the Liquor is to be ſtrain'd
again and put into Bottles and ſo kept."
-Charles Carter, _The Compleat City and Country Cook:
Or, Accomplish'd House-wife_. 1732.
<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=yYYEAAAAYAAJ&dq=apricot+date:1000-1800&lr=&pg=RA1-PA203&ci=46,134,779,604&source=bookclip">The Compleat City and Country Cook Or, Accomplish'd House-wife. Containing, Several Hundred of the Most Approv'd Receipts in Cookery, Confectionary, Cordials [etc.] ... Illustrated with Forty-nine Large Copper Plates, Directing the Regular Placing the Various Dishes on the Table ... Also, Bills of Fare According to the Several Seasons for Every Month of the Year ... By Charles Carter</a>
A filling ration of breads.
A filling meal of stale, but hearty, bread.
"It is further reported that in the provinces [Caesar] gave banquets
constantly in two dining halls, in one of which his officers or Greek
companions, in the other Roman civilians and the more distinguished of
the provincials reclined at table. He was so punctilious and strict in
the management of his household, in small matters as well as in those of
greater importance, that he put his baker in irons for serving him with
one kind of bread and his guests with another..."
-Suetonius, _De Vita Caesarum, Divus Iulius_. 110 CE.
A delicious, juicy orange fruit.
"Conſerve of Orange Peel
HAVING grated the rinds of ſome Seville oranges as thin as you can,
weigh them, and to every pound of orange rind add three pounds of loaf ſugar.
Pound the orange rind well in a marble mortar, mix the ſugar by degrees
with them and beat all well together. Put it into gallipots and tie
it down ſo as properly to prevent the air getting to it."
-Francis Collingwood, John Woollams, _The Universal
Cook: And City and Country Housekeeper. 1792.
A delicious juicy orange fruit.
<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=xJMEAAAAYAAJ&dq=orange+date:1000-1800&lr=&pg=PA292&ci=89,879,795,332&source=bookclip">The Universal Cook And City and Country Housekeeper By Francis Collingwood, John Woollams</a>
A dried fruit of some sort, possibly a grape.
A humble raisin.
"A Turkish garden was among the curiosities to which the Jew found access
for Bentham. It was a sort of orchard of vines and other trees, without
order or apparent arrangement. From that garden Bentham sent specimens
of the Sultana raisin to England which he believed to have been the first
of that species which had ever reachedahis country."
-John Bowring, _The Works of Jeremy Bentham_. 1839.