SC - RE: selecting roots and vegetables
Philip & Susan Troy
troy at asan.com
Mon Feb 21 09:13:04 PST 2000
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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