SC - Re: Period Shortbread Recipes

[alysk@ix.netcom.com]

In a message dated 10/17/99 2:10:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
lorix at trump.net.au writes:

<< I have been puzzling over "chard" what exactly is it, is it just spinach? 
>>

Chard is  a beet. Not spinach.

Swiss chard (noun)

First appeared 1832

 : a beet (Beta vulgaris cicla) having large leaves and succulent stalks 
often cooked as a vegetable -- called also chard

chard (noun)

[modification of French carde, from Provencal cardo, from Latin carduus 
thistle, cardoon]

First appeared 1664

 : SWISS CHARD

Ras
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