Fw: HERB - Skirrets

[Jennifer Greene]

>From the sound of it, it looks kinda like a mutant turnip?

Jennifer Greene
Kamloops, BC, Canada
Dona Gwendolynn Francesca Maria Coccetti (SCA)
Seneschale, Shire of Ramsgaard
jennifer_greene at bc.sympatico.ca
(250)314-0475
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-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Beeler <LibbyAndColin at webtv.net>
To: herbalist at Ansteorra.ORG <herbalist at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: HERB - Skirrets


Well, until Raisya or someone extremely knowledgable jumps in here:
     Culpeper's shows a picture of a skirret root that looks something
like a cluster of carrots splayed outward from a central stalk.  He
defines it as "a root vegetable with a taste superior to
Carrots"........"the roots are white inside (with a brown outside
layer)".............."introduced into England from Chine during the
reign of Henry VIII..........popular in Roman times"   I thought it
might make a rather nifty feast presentation.
   Culpeper also states "the root is diuretic and cleansing........not
now used in herbal medicine."
     Has anyone tasted skirrets?  I am growing a patch for the baronial
cooks next year, be nice to know if they are actually edible.....
Lebearchaulmn, the hermit

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