OOP - Boiling veggies to syrup (was: SC - long white turnips)

[Par Leijonhufvud]

On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> them tend to dry out just a bit, and concentrate the sugars. Parsnips
> are, BTW, the only vegetable I know, except perhaps for the sugar beet,
> which can be boiled in a little plain water and leave a definite syrup
> behind in the pot.

Not period (to the best of my knowledge), but...
Try the rootstocks from reeds (Phragmites communis); they store sucrose, 
so you can get a syrup by dissolving the sugar out of the fiborous mass, 
and reducing the liquid.

/UlfR

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Par Leijonhufvud                  par.leijonhufvud at labtek.ki.se 
		oderint dum metuant

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