SC - Saffron

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A few years ago I did some research on carrots because they were part of a
soup recipe I was entering in Ice Dragon.  I discovered that carrots were
purple or a color close to that of a parsnip.  Orange carrots were a
mutation discovered by someone in Holland.  I will try to locate my
research, but that my take a while. 

Sindara



At 07:02 AM 4/23/99 -0400, you wrote:
>david friedman wrote:
>> 
>> a
>> carrot and spice drink (throw out the carrots, use the water they were
>> boiled in!)
>
>Given that carrots in period seem to have been a little closer to
>parsnips than to modern carrots, I'll point out that when you boil
>parsnips in the right mass proportion to water, you end up with quite a
>respectable light syrup (fermentable and the basis of an alternative
>stout in Britain). The above doesn't sound very surprising, but I agree,
>it might not be the first thing a typical modern person would think of.
>
>Adamantius
>-- 
>Phil & Susan Troy
>
>troy at asan.com
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