SC - thanks

[marilyn traber]

Sue Wensel wrote:

> I beg to differ, but I believe cauliflower (at least the version
> called red
> cauliflower) is period, or incredibly close as Gervase Markham
> mentions using
> its _leave_ in salads.  I wonder what they did with the flower.
>
> Derdriu

There are lots of veggies that are period, but not in the form we have
today-a good example is celery- in the root form, also called celeriac
it is period, but in the stalk form it is a gentleman gardeners
horticultural development of the 18th century. Carrots weren't always
the nice tender orange things you have now, they were like the root of
the wild carrot-queen Annes lace-tough and stringy with a pronounced
carrot taste, probably why so many old recipes refer to chopping them
fine and boiling the heck out of them, and there is some evidence to
support the white egglant as the original form. It is not inconcievable
tat the cauliflower was a leafy form not the blossom form we use today.
margali

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