Lemons

The lemon is a cultivated hybrid deriving from wild species such as the citron and mandarin. When and where this first occurred is not known. The “medicinal fruit” seems to have been the first citrus fruit known in the Mediterranean world. Depictions of citrus trees appear in Roman mosaics of North Africa, but the first unequivocal description of the lemon is found in the early tenth-century Arabic treatise on farming by Qustus al-Rumi. At the end of the twelfth century, Ibn Jami, personal physician to the great Muslim leader Saladin, wrote a treatise on the lemon, after which is mentioned with greater frequency in the Mediterranean. However, it is believed that the first lemons were originally cultivated in the hot, semi-arid Deccan Plateau in Central India.
The origin of the name “lemon” is trough Persian, akin to the Sanskrit nimbuka. They were cultivated in Genoa in the mid-fifteenth century and appeared in the Azores in 1494. More recent research has identified lemons in the ruins of Pompeii. Lemons were once used by the British Royal navy to combat scurvy, as they provided a large amount of Vitamin C (Link). Therefore lemons are the first item on my shopping list whenever I go the supermarket. We serve them sliced at home with every glass of water and every cup of tea.
Lemons are great component for cakes too and here is the recipe for a Lemon Cake (Link) that a friend gives it to me, but I am still in the preparation period.