SC - Small Feasts-'unplanned' LONG

[Decker, Terry D.]

In a message dated 97-10-22 09:12:45 EDT, you write:

<< 
 sugar beets taste like regular beets, note the name beta vulgar., have
 you ever given thought to making birch sugar? you treat birch sap like
 maple sap and condense ethe bejesus out of it. You can also dry honey
 out and powder it.>>>

     Interesting, again. I would have expected, from the name, that sugar
beets would be sweeter than "normal" ones. Birch sugar could be a fun
experiment, but I don't have easy access to any birch trees, I'm afraid. And
drying the honey out is more trouble than it's really worth for us--it's easy
enough to use in it's natural state. 
 
>>>I think the perid form of beet is the mangel-worzel, it is this big ugly
 football like thing that is also known as a feed beet. I haave also seen
 seeds for yellow beets in the gurney's catalogue[i think it was that
 one, but it was a few years ago.]
 
 margali
 
  >>
      So----does anyone know how mangels taste? ;-) I've got some seeds for a
variety of them that I didn't get around to planting this year. Anyone have
documentation for this type of beet?  Be a fun A&S entry....... Oh, and
golden beets are common, most seed companies carry them. They have the
advantage of not bleeding  red dye into things that you don't *want* red.
Like clothes................. ;-) Haven't grown any yet, but they are
supposed to taste the same as the red ones.

  Ldy Diana
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