How did people get oranges in winter before fast shipping?!


Question: How did people get oranges in winter before fast shipping!?
I've read about people having oranges in winter in North Europe in the 1700s!.!.!. how did they do that!?Www@FoodAQ@Com


Answers:
Imported oranges were incredibly rare and expensive before modern shipping allowed them to be brought into Europe quickly and the vast majority of the population did not even know what an orange looked like!. Some varieties actually do grow in Southern Europe and could be shipped quickly enough not to have spoilt en route but these tended to be the bitter oranges and were used mostly in the production of expensive preserves!. On the other hand there were a few grand houses which had orangeries!.!.green houses dedicated to the production of oranges under carefully controlled conditions and in the care of expert gardeners!.!.just as some houses had pinaries for growing pineapples, peach hours and succession house in which a variety of fruit were grown and moved from cool conditions to warmer and so on to mimic their natural growing conditions and produce fruit all year around!. These methods did not produce great quantities of fruit and the cost was frankly mind-boggling; but to offer your gusts a slice of fresh pineapple at dinner, or a fresh orange was a sure way to impress them with how rich you must be!.!.The earliest guavas grown in England, by the way, were in the green houses of Cardinal Wolsey who died in 1530! Www@FoodAQ@Com

Being old enough and in a small country I can recall growing up eating food that was in "our area", and foods unavailable because they are out of season!.

It still happens unless you want to pay 2-3 times the price and shop around!.

At the moment I don't think I could find a fresh Apricot, so we go without!.Www@FoodAQ@Com

well i would guess they got them from places like brazil where its hot in our winter months and people moved fruits from far away places but i don't know how they keep them from rotting so i guess i really didn't helpWww@FoodAQ@Com

They do last for a long time so they were shipped also!. Www@FoodAQ@Com

I'm not sure they could do that!.!.!. or they might all have been rotten before they got there :\Www@FoodAQ@Com





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