SC - RE: selecting roots and vegetables

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:
> 
> I know radishes appear in recipes for compost, but that's pickled, not cooked
> as I recall.  So radishes were eaten in period, but I can't remeber if I've
> ever seen a reference to the cooked.  If I recall, the middle English word
> for radishes is "rafens"; am I correct in this?

The radishes in compost are cooked, then salted, and then pickled in the
vinegary sauce, as I recall. Yes, rafens (with an f, not a
funkily-written sans-serif s) are one of the ways some Middle English
recipes refer to radishes.

Adamantius
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Phil & Susan Troy

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