Seasonal Produce

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Contents

[edit] Introduction

As an additional option you can list per month what is available for trade, food etc.. As an example we have provided a list from the setting of AoI which is 17th century England.

[edit] January

[edit] Vegetables

  • Beetroot
  • Red, white and green cabbages
  • Celeriac
  • Kohlrabi
  • Leeks
  • Onions
  • Potatoes
  • Spinach
  • chard

[edit] Fruit and nuts

The last of:

  • English apples
  • pears
  • nuts.

[edit] Game

  • Matured partridge
  • Pheasant
  • Mallard
  • Pigeon
  • Rabbit
  • Hare.

[edit] Fish

  • Brill
  • Cod
  • Flounder
  • John Dory
  • Scallops.

[edit] Cheese

  • Bonchester
  • Sharpham
  • Appleby Cheshire.

[edit] From France

  • Bresse Bleu
  • Cantal
  • Pont l'Eveque
  • Roquefort.

[edit] Flora

Such things as are green all winter:

  • Holly
  • Ivy
  • Bays
  • Juniper
  • Cypress trees
  • Yew
  • Pineapple trees
  • Fir trees
  • Rosemary
  • Lavender
  • Periwinkle (white, purple and blue varieties)
  • Flags
  • Orange trees
  • Lemon trees
  • Myrtles (if they be stoved)
  • Sweet marjoram, if warm set.

[edit] Februrary

[edit] Vegetables

  • Brussels sprouts
  • Brussels tops
  • Salsify
  • Shallots.

[edit] Game

Feathered game now at an end.

  • wild duck
  • Rabbit
  • hare.

[edit] Fish

  • Lemon sole and other flat fish.
  • Wild salmon season begins.

[edit] Cheese

  • Farmhouse Cheddar
  • Blue Cheshire
  • Cotherstone.

[edit] From France

  • Brie de Meaux
  • Tomme Arlesienne
  • Bleu des Causses.

[edit] Flora

  • The mezereon tree (daphne) which then blossoms
  • Crocus (both yellow and grey)
  • Primroses
  • Anemones
  • Early tulips
  • Hyacinth
  • Charmaris
  • Fritellaria.

[edit] March

[edit] Vegetables

  • Calabrese
  • Purple sprouting broccoli
  • Carrots
  • Spring greens
  • Spring onions.

[edit] Fruit

  • The first rhubarb.

[edit] Game

  • Pigeon
  • Rabbit
  • hare.

[edit] Fish

  • Mackerel
  • Halibut
  • Bass. Flat fish are beginning to spawn now, so their quality declines.
  • Wild salmon
  • Sea trout.

[edit] Cheese

  • Cotherstone
  • Wensleydale

[edit] From France

  • Coulommiers
  • Comte
  • Banon
  • Roquefort.


[edit] Flora

  • Violets (especially the single blue)
  • Yellow daffodil
  • Daisy
  • Almond tree in blossom
  • Peach tree in blossom
  • Cornelian tree in blossom
  • Sweetbriar.

[edit] April

[edit] Vegetables

  • Spring cabbages
  • carrots
  • All winter root vegetables are now on their last legs
  • first new potatoes from Jersey
  • Leeks
  • first lettuces and other salad leaves.
  • The short morel season begins.

[edit] Fruit

  • Height of the rhubarb season.

[edit] Meat

  • Welsh lamb.

[edit] Game

  • Pigeon
  • rabbit
  • hare.

[edit] Fish

  • The first crabs
  • salmon
  • trout
  • lobster
  • shrimps.

[edit] Cheese

  • Single Gloucester
  • Double Berkeley
  • Fresh goats' milk cheeses.

[edit] From France

  • Beaufort
  • Gapron

[edit] Flora

  • Violet (the double white)
  • Wall-flower
  • Stock gillyflower
  • Cowslip
  • Flower-de-luce (iris)
  • Lilies of all kinds
  • Rosemary flowers
  • Tulips
  • Double peony
  • Pale daffodil
  • French honeysuckle
  • Cherry tree in blossom
  • Damascene tree in blossom
  • Plum tree in blossom
  • White thorn in leaf
  • Lilac tree.

[edit] May

[edit] Vegetables

  • The asparagus season
  • The first broad beans
  • spinach
  • sorrel
  • primo cabbage.

[edit] Fruit

  • Strawberries
  • Red currants
  • Raspberries

[edit] Meat

  • New-season lamb continues.

[edit] Fish

  • Spring lobster
  • haddock
  • prawns.

[edit] Cheese

  • English soft cheeses
  • Sharpham
  • Bonchester
  • Wheatland

[edit] From France

  • Reblochon
  • Bleu d'Auvergne
  • Chabichou.

[edit] Flora

  • Pinks of all sorts, especially the blush pink
  • Roses of all kinds, except the musk rose which comes later
  • Honeysuckle
  • Bugloss
  • Columbine
  • French marigold (flos africanus, also called African marigold)
  • Cherry tree in fruit
  • Vine flowers
  • Lavender in flowers
  • Sweet satyrion (white)
  • Herba muscaria
  • Lilium convallium
  • Apple tree in blossom.

[edit] June

[edit] Vegetables

Asparagus continues its short season. New potatoes, the first courgettes and globe artichokes, green beans, salad leaves, mange-tout and watercress.

[edit] Fruit

Strawberries, cherries and gooseberries.

[edit] Fish

Hake, crab, lobster, prawns, sardines and whitebait.

[edit] Cheese

Farmhouse Cheddar.

[edit] From France

Saint-Marcellin, Sancerre and La Bouille.

[edit] Flora

  • Pinks of all sorts, especially the blush pink
  • Roses of all kinds, except the musk rose which comes later
  • Honeysuckle
  • Strawberries
  • Bugloss
  • Columbine
  • French marigold (flos africanus, also called African marigold)
  • Cherry tree in fruit
  • Ribes (currants)
  • Figs in fruit
  • Raspberries
  • Vine flowers
  • Lavender in flowers
  • Sweet satyrion (white)
  • Herba muscaria
  • Lilium convallium
  • Apple tree in blossom.

[edit] July

[edit] Vegetables

Broad beans, peas, green beans, garlic, cucumbers, lettuces and salad leaves, radishes and watercress.

[edit] Fruit

Black, red and white currants, strawberries, raspberries, gooseberries, cherries, bilberries and blueberries.

[edit] Fish

Grilse (young salmon), plaice just beginning and squid from Scotland. The best month for crab, lobster, prawns and shrimps.

[edit] Cheese

Goats' milk cheese from Britain.

[edit] From France

crottin de Chavignol, Valenay, Saint-Remy and Tomme Vaudoise.

[edit] Flora

  • All kinds of gillyflowers
  • Musk roses
  • Lime tree in blossom
  • Early pears and plums in fruit
  • Gentians
  • Quadlins

[edit] August

[edit] Vegetables

New beetroots, courgettes, peppers, potatoes such as Pink Fir Apple and Ratte, sweet corn and tomatoes.

[edit] Fruit

Plums (Early Laxton, Czar and Opal), cherries, apricots, loganberries and melons.

[edit] Game

Grouse from the 12th onwards.

[edit] Fish

Dover sole, grey mullet, haddock, herring, pilchards and red mullet.

[edit] Cheese

Farmhouse Cheddar, Chaource, Valenay and Charolles.

[edit] Flora

  • Plums of all sorts
  • pears
  • apricots
  • barberries
  • filberts
  • muskmelons
  • monks-hoods of all colors.

[edit] September

[edit] Nuts

Cobnuts

[edit] Vegetables

Salad leaves continue, sweet corn and tomatoes. Wild mushroom season begins. New-season beetroots, cauliflowers and carrots.

[edit] Fruit

Greengages, plums, figs, blackberries, grapes, melons. First English apples - Worcester, Pearmain and James Grieve. Wild sloes, elderberries, hawthorn and rowan.

[edit] Game

Wild duck, partridge, teal, pigeon, venison and grouse.

[edit] Fish

Clams, oysters, mussels, pilchards, plaice, prawns, sea bass, skate, turbot and Dover sole.

[edit] Cheese

Farmhouse Cheshire, double Gloucester, Carré de l'Est, Brie de Meaux and Boulette d'Avesnes.

[edit] Flora

  • Poppies of all colors
  • Wardens
  • Quinces.

[edit] October

[edit] Vegetables

Cèpes, chanterelles and a great range of other fungi - parasol, oyster, blewits, horse and field mushrooms. Broccoli, autumn varieties of cabbage, marrows and squashes, potatoes and young turnips.

[edit] Fruit and nuts

Fresh walnuts, sweet chestnuts, hazelnuts, Kentish cobs, quinces, crab cooking and eating apples and pears.

[edit] Game

Pheasant, woodcock, partridge, grouse, guinea fowl, hare and mallard.

[edit] Fish

Brill, cod, Dover sole, mussels, oysters, squid and turbot.

[edit] Cheese

Caerphilly, Vacherin, Gruyère and Cabrions de Macon.

[edit] Flora

  • Services
  • Medlars
  • Bullaces
  • Roses that have been cut or removed (pruned) to come late
  • Hollyoaks, and such like.

[edit] November

[edit] Vegetables

Parsnips, turnips, beetroots, red and Savoy cabbages, carrots, cauliflowers, celeriac, celery and leeks.

[edit] Fruit and nuts

Apples, pears, quinces, medlars, almonds, chestnuts, hazelnuts and walnuts.

[edit] Game

Pheasant, partridge, mallard and grouse. Hare and wild rabbit.

[edit] Fish

Halibut, herring, sea bream and sprats.

[edit] Cheese

Ribblesdale, Saint-Nectaire and Caprice-des-Dieux.

[edit] Flora

Such things as are green all winter:

  • Holly
  • Ivy
  • Bays
  • Juniper
  • Cypress trees
  • Yew
  • Pineapple trees
  • Fir trees
  • Rosemary
  • Lavender
  • Periwinkle (white, purple and blue varieties)
  • Flags
  • Orange trees
  • Lemon trees
  • Myrtles (if they be stoved)
  • Sweet marjoram, if warm set.

[edit] December

[edit] Vegetables

Brussels sprouts, curly kale, Jerusalem artichokes, leeks, garlic, pumpkin, swedes, chard and spinach.

[edit] Fruit and nuts

Much the same as November.

[edit] Game

The same as November, plus goose.

[edit] Fish

A whole turbot or sea bass makes a nice change from poultry over Christmas. Carp, conger eel, Dover sole, mussels, oysters and skate.

[edit] Cheese

Stilton, Vacherin Mont d'Or, Tomme de Savoie and Brie de Melun.

[edit] Flora

Such things as are green all winter:

  • Holly
  • Ivy
  • Bays
  • Juniper
  • Cypress trees
  • Yew
  • Pineapple trees
  • Fir trees
  • Rosemary
  • Lavender
  • Periwinkle (white, purple and blue varieties)
  • Flags
  • Orange trees
  • Lemon trees
  • Myrtles (if they be stoved)
  • Sweet marjoram, if warm set.
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