It is thanks to its port on the Garonne, that Agen became the main city of the shippings of prunes.
A new variety of plums is created, it is called Prune d’Ente (from old French "to graft" which means transplanting). It is in the XIIth century, on the return to the crusades, that the monks of the Abbey of Clairac in the valley of the Lot (between Agen and Villeneuve) had the idea to transplant local plum trees with new plants of plum trees of Damas returned by Syria. Due to its long conservation, prunes are meanly eaten during cold seasons or for long journey in caravans or during boat travels. The prune is a dried fruit with high nutritional values. Coming from China by the silk route, the plum tree became established in all the Mediterranean Basin at the instigation of the Greeks and Romain.ĭepending on the regions, plums were sun-dried or dried in oven.
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