Plum jerkum and in flavour "from a sticky sweetness to a sparkling tartness" depending on the type of plum used. The Worcestershire author and farmer Fred Archer mentions jerkum several times in his stories of rural life, as does John Moore in his books set around a fictionalised Bredon Hill. Some aficionados in American craft beverages have started to use "jerkum" as a broader term encompassing the alcoholic drink produced from any unadulterated fermented stone fruit (e.g., nectarine, peach, apricot, pluot). Plum jerkum Plum jerkum is an alcoholic drink produced from plums. It has been variously described as made in the same
Name of Andalusia "Gothica sors", a Latin exonym of the Visigothic Kingdom, which translates to "Gothic lot", Halm reconstructs a Gothic term that would correspond to the Latin term, meaning "lot lands", as "*landahlauts". The hypothetical term would have given rise both to the Latin loan translation "Gothica sors" and to the Arabic "al-Andalus", by phonetic imitation. Name of Andalusia The toponym "al-Andalus" () is first attested in inscriptions on coins minted by the Umayyad rulers of Iberia, from ca. 715. The etymology of the name has traditionally been derived from the name of the "Vandals" (who settled in Hispania in the 5th