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  • From: "MARIE ASHTON" <bwoodtx@verizon.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] citron
  • Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 21:15:24 -0600

I think that you are all saying the same thing. The citron of history is a type of lemon and the Citron melon is just a lemon flavored melon which does not make it a true citron.
By the way the citron melon is what we used to call a pie melon. We always thought it was a watermelon gone wild and it sure cannot be eaten raw.
Richard Ashton
Brownwood, Texas
zone 8- HS 9

----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas A. Beckett" <thomas@tbeckett.com>
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Subject: [NAFEX] citron


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I have a question about "citron".

I have a recipe for a "white fruitcake" in one of my "Southern"
cookbooks that calls for citron, finely chopped. Until recently I
thought that citron was a citrus fruit and that was that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citron
Then in a seed catalogue I read a description of a melon variety that
says the melon is "used to make preserves and "sweetmeats" that are
added to fruitcakes, cookies and puddings."
http://www.seedsavers.org/prodinfo.asp?number=1240(OG)

So which is it? Is the melon lemony-flavored? I have a package of
candied citron, but there is no indication of whether that is citrus or
melon. A little Google-based research is inconclusive. Is it a weed
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/FW013
or a pickle or hog fodder?
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MV052
Was the catalogue just confused?
http://www.innvista.com/health/foods/fruits/citron.htm
Seems like melon or citrus could be used in the recipe.

Thanks for your collective wisdom.

Thomas
Hendersonville, NC

P.S. Is either melon or citrus something that would grow well here in
the mountains of North Carolina?
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