Strawberry Preserves and Apple Juice

[jrhitchcock 1]

I hope that this has not been covered yet but I though a great food addition would be fruit preserves (not just strawberry). It could be crafted by extracting gelatine

from bones, sugar from canes and stored in glass bottles. Another idea was more beverage options. Fruit juice has been made from apples and pears for centuries in northern Europe as a was of preserving fruit. Its very realistic, very believable and good way to preserve all that quickly decaying fruit.

 

I know that the topic of refrigeration has been covered extensively. I just wanted to mention that in Nuremberg during the middle ages they built an extensive cave system under the city (sandstone). In the winter men would string up ropes on posts like a clothes line and pour water onto them to make icicles. Tons of these icicles were then stored in the caves to keep the beer they made cold all year long. If you could afford it you could literally have an "ice cold one" in the summer time in the year 1100. Just thought you might like to know.

[TonyLiberatto 364]

I would not say that fruit juice is a way of preserving. Now if you are talking about Wine (Or Cider ) than I would have to agree., It works as preservation.

I know most people now a days associate wine with getting drunk but is all about quantities.Everybody drunk wine in Europe for centuries, it does not mean that people would get drunk every day.

[Guest Ragnarogk]

I would not say that fruit juice is a way of preserving. Now if you are talking about Wine (Or Cider ) than I would have to agree., It works as preservation.

I know most people now a days associate wine with getting drunk but is all about quantities.Everybody drunk wine in Europe for centuries, it does not mean that people would get drunk every day.

 

Wine come from the middle east, in ceramic vessels, sience 6000BC. So yes, it is a very realistic adding for the mod. You can store it in jugs instead of only bottles and barrels. There is a number of licuors mad form berries too. Now that whe have so much quantity of berries in the world whe can make some berries licuor. Some of this licuors have proved medicinal properties, like the patxaran. from the basque country, made from sloeberrie.

I think if it was a diesease sistem, something like that can help to treat that diseases. Or maybe if you don eat any citrics for too much time make you have scurvy.

 

Sorry for the english, im from spain.