SC - Questions about Archives and Carrots

[harriet meeker]

Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu wrote:
>...Wild carrots have white roots.  Le Menagier talks of carrots with
>red roots.  Gervase Markham mentions carrots of "sundry colours", and 
>Gerard describes a yellow carrot, and a blackish-red carrot.  Carrots
>colored pale orange and dark red can be seen in oil paintins of the 16th 
>century. Epulario uses carrots to make a jelly a sanguine color.

Thank you very much.  These are just the sorts of clues I was looking for.  
I've been looking at the rest of your discussion with Adamantius and this is 
just fascinating.

I do believe, though, that I may have misrepresented my intention without 
meaning to.  If so, I am dreadfully sorry.  I didn't mean to suggest that 
people ignore possibilities just because there isn't any extant 
documentation to support them.  But I write a column for our local 
newsletter, trying to answer questions about the Middle Ages based solely on 
the documentation we have available to us.  Now it's true that neither I nor 
the people who help me with the research are always perfect with this, but 
it's the goal we shoot for.

You all here are looking at answering some of the questions that
arise about medieval cuisine and such, or so I'm told.  I believe for that 
sort of thing, careful speculation can be vital.  At least, that's what I 
hear from others :-)

I'm not going to pretend I know much about anything myself.  Left to my own 
devices, I'd be serving grits and greens :-)

I was asked about colored carrots last week.  I don't know anyone who knows 
anything about them, except that Texas A&M's bred sweet maroon carrots.  So 
I was told to check out what had passed here before, since that would give 
us some clues where to look.

And for that, I thank you all

Berengaria Ravencroft
Berengaria at hotmail.com
http://""www.geocities.com/athens/styx/5871"
"The brave man carves out his own fortune, and every man is the son of his 
own works" -- Miguel de Cervantes




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