sca-cooks Greetings
Philip W. Troy
troy at asan.com
Thu Apr 10 17:27:16 PDT 1997
Mark Harris wrote:
>
> Tibor said:
>
> >I gather that carrots have changed, as well. I'm sure meat animals are less
> >fatty and more meaty.
>
> I remember carrots being discusses on the Riatlo several years ago.
> Apparently
> until a mutation very late in the Middle Ages carrots were white. (Yuck!) and
> I imagine, smaller.
Carrots in the Middle Ages appear to have been, essentially, parsnips
with a red skin like a radish. I understand that the major cause of
their being as they are today is nineteenth-century hybridization.
Adamantius
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