SC - scallions/shallots

[Liam Fisher]

In a message dated 10/20/99 7:04:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
parlei at algonet.se writes:

<<  since there is much more nutrition (as in carbohydrates)
 in roots than in leaves perhaps it was worth collecting the roots after
 all? >>

Possibly but 'nutrition' is a modern concept. I would suspect that the mass 
of food a plant could provide for a meal would have been a more common reason 
for collecting and preparing any given food. If the roots were medicinally 
superior to the leaves in some way, I could see using them with regularity. 

OTOH, as with many root crops, it may have been a food for the poor and for 
animal feed with the occasional recipe appearing as an oddity. Whether eaten 
or not, beetroot does not appear to be a common food item on the tables of 
the wealthy during the middle ages if that can be judged by the number of 
recipes which specifically call for its use.

Ras
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