SC - Period Beet Recipe & period quote about beets
LrdRas at aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Wed Oct 20 04:50:43 PDT 1999
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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