Viking Foods – Fruits and Sweets by Rob Shackleford
Viking Foods - Fruits and Sweets by Rob Shackleford When we say “fruit” – often we think of fruits such as apples, oranges, bananas and maybe pineapple. Yet none of these fruits were available to the Vikings! True, they had access to crab-apples, much harder than the apples that originated in Kazakhstan and were grown in China. Now, nearly 8000 varieties of apples have been identified around the world. Oranges are a hybrid of pomalo and mandarins, and were introduced into Europe by the Moorish invasions around the 10th Century. Vikings would have come into contact with oranges as…