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  • From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Hardy Prunus, was Re: Staking of immature fruit trees
  • Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:44:53 -0600

Someone told me that the Mirabelle was from eastern France and was famous for making wine, and that the French in that region would put the wine out in the winter and remove the ice to make a sort of plum brandy. This plum brandy had a reputation for making men sterile, at least temporarily, so the French took care to give it to the German occupiers during WW2. Donna




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