SC - RE: Onions

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Welsh onions are sometimes known as "Egyptian" onions or sprouting onions.  
These are tall plants, which the onions(about the size of a modern boiling 
onion) form on the tips of the stalks like flowers, in clusters.

  Lady Katherine McGuire


>From: Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
>To: SCA-Cooks maillist <SCA-Cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
>Subject: SC - RE: Onions
>Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 00:16:31 -0500
>
>Margarite asked:
> >         I'm wondering about the difference between onions today and 
>those in
> > period. What varieties were available? Are red onions period?
>
>I took an interesting class from Raisya Khorivoyna from Ansteorra at 
>Pennsic
>on "The Carolingian Garden". In her handout, which I hope to have in the
>Florilegium soon, she mentions in her lists of plants:
>"Capitulare de Villis" (800AD): leeks, onions, welsh onions, shallots
>"St. Gall Plan (820AD)": leeks, onions, shallots
>
>Anyone know what a "Welsh onion" is? Other than an onion that Charlemagne
>at least, thought came from Wales?
>--
>Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
>**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:
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