SC - Questions about Archives and Carrots

[Cindy Renfrow]

I just looked at a site yesterday that offered seeds for heirloom carrots
in a variety of colors:  http://www.webslnger.com/wethepeople/

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.

HTH,


Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net
Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
Recipes"
http://www.alcasoft.com/renfrow/


>>>Second, can people suggest period sources for different colors
>>>of carrots?  I understand that Le Menagier is supposed to refer to >>them
>>>as
>>>"red roots", and I know that there is some thought that they used to
>>>be white, and more like the root of Queen Anne's Lace.  But I've >>been
>>>told
>>>there were supposed to be blue carrots and so on.  I know there were blue
>>>potatos, but carrots?
>>Yes, Le Menagier says something to the effect that they're small red
>>roots that cost a silver penny a handful. I'm not aware of blue ones, >or
>>at least no references to them in period sources. That doesn't mean they
>>didn't exist, I guess, though.
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>show this to) really insists on period documentation.  Something about "non
>scriptorum, non est" I think it was.
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