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Apple

Nature

Apple as a plant people have named and used. Choice fruit, orchard round, daily sweet — one living kind, not a single symbol.

Norse tradition

  • Apple appears in Norse tradition.

    Snorri’s Gylfaginning names the apples Iðunn keeps that renew the gods. A named plant kind in that prose, not idunn-apples as the named episode already walked and not the Homeric pomegranate.

    from Snorri Sturluson · Gylfaginning, c. 1220

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  • Apple is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists apple (melon) kinds among cooling and stomach drugs. A named apple in that handbook, not Idunn’s Norse apples or the apple-of-discord already walked and not a teacher’s-pet dump.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

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  • Apple is historically related to Oil.

    In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Apple and Oil are named as companions in the same handbook speech.

    from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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  • Apple is historically related to Milk.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, apples roasted, or boiled in milk, are named among proper ripe-fruit foods on a milk diet — apple is prepared with that milk.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Apple is historically related to Tea.

    In Buchan’s Domestic Medicine, cooling liquors prepared from fruits include apple-tea among the diluting drinks — apple is prepared as that tea.

    from William Buchan · Domestic Medicine, 1791 (12th ed.; Gutenberg #74359)

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  • Apple is historically related to Tree.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, Fall scenes place the apple with the serpent twined around the tree — the apple hangs on that tree.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Apple is historically related to Angel.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, a Saxon Fall scene shows Eve giving the apple to the serpent to eat, and another Ceadmon miniature changes the serpent’s form into that of a crowned angel with wings.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Apple is historically related to Butter.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, apple sauce for geese or pork boils pared apples soft enough to pulp, then beats them with sugar and a small piece of butter.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Serpent is historically related to Apple.

    In Twining’s Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediæval Christian Art, Eve appears giving the apple to the serpent to eat — the serpent takes that apple.

    from Louisa Twining · Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaeval Christian Art, 1852 (new ed. 1885)

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  • Quince is historically related to Apple.

    In Beeton’s Book of Household Management, a small portion of quince in apple pie much improves its flavour — quince is baked with that apple.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Suet

    In Beeton Book of Household Management, baked apple dumplings roll pared apples in suet-crust after sweetening them with moist sugar.

    from Isabella Beeton · Book of Household Management, 1861

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  • Saffron is historically related to Apple.

    In Culpeper’s English Physician, half a dram of turmeric is taken at night in the pulp of a roasted apple, and a little saffron added to it makes the dose better against jaundice and a cold liver.

    from Nicholas Culpeper · The English Physician, 1652 (and later PD editions)

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Roman religion

  • Apple appears in Roman religion.

    Pliny’s Natural History seats the apple among Italian orchard fruits and cultivars. A named apple in that encyclopedia, not the Norse Iðunn apples already walked and not a modern cider dump alone.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Hellenic religion

  • Apple appears in Hellenic religion.

    Pausanias names apples among Hesperides, dedication, and local fruit speech in Greek sanctuaries. A named apple in that periegesis, not apple-of-discord object alone and not every orchard dump.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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