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Did the Romans have marmalade ?

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  • 13Across
    Lv 7
    9 years ago
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    See

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marmalade

    whichs correctlysays that the Romans made a sort of marmalade out of quinces; and that orange marmalade was invented not by an Englishman, but by a Scotsman.

  • Bilbo
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Modern Romans do, obviously - but Ancient Romans did not have oranges as they originate in China. Trees of the cultivated fruit used in marmalade don't appear in Italy until about 1500.

    They also did not have pizzas or pasta or indeed tomatoes.

  • glenbarrington
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    I don't think so, I've read that marmalade was invented by an English importer of oranges who hated the thought of the waste of orange peels. So he tried to find a way to make the peel palatable. Marmalade was his one success.

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