Really needed to know. Thanks.
2006-11-28 10:23:19 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Tough question! Fun to research.
It appears lemons were available around that time at least in Europe and England. The first website listed below is a bit of history on lemonade. The first recipe, from France and written in 1653, clearly calls out using lemons. I suppose dried lemons would keep well for long periods of time and possibly lemon juice as well.
If you scroll down about 1/3 of the way through the 2nd website it gives some general information about the history of "lemon cookery". It discusses "perfumed waters" and some desserts being made around that time. Unfortunatlely it doesn't specify lemon squares. But it might help you out somehow. Sorry I couldn't find more info.
2006-11-28 10:40:39 · answer #1 · answered by Atrocious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lemons in colonial times were not very readily available - lemons are a semi-tropical fruit, that grew firstly in India and in the Mediterranean area, and it is highly unlikely that there were any lemon trees yet in the New World, and transportation was very slow then, and this means spoilage in transit, so lemons in "colonial times" would be rare, indeed.
2006-11-28 10:38:00 · answer #2 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
prolly, if they had lemons
2006-11-28 10:24:52 · answer #3 · answered by your last resort 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they had lemons....
2006-11-28 10:24:58 · answer #4 · answered by Up your Maslow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah
2006-11-28 10:24:13 · answer #5 · answered by dragonrider 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think so, but i don't see why not
2006-11-28 10:24:33 · answer #6 · answered by altmetal4christ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
probably not
2006-11-28 10:24:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋