SC - Roots and war

[Olwen the Odd]

That stocking/onion thing is if you hang them.  A lot of folks do that to 
Vidalia Onions.  It looks simply silly to walk into someones mud room and 
see dozens of lumpy pantyhose suspended from the rafters!

I might suggest going to the grocer and asking for those wooden crates some 
veggies come in.  Pretty much, the way things get packed for shipment to 
market is a good way to deal with foodstuffs for a 1-2 week time.  Perhaps, 
if you are fortunate, you can come on some of those molded cardfiber 
dividers they put in fruit boxes (usually blue or purple).  Good luck and 
let me know when dinner is...
olwen


>From: Jennifer L Sweet <minxkitten at juno.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: SCA-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: SC - Roots and war
>Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 22:05:21 -0400
>
>Hello,
>	okay, now this may or may not be of use.  concerning the storage of root
>vegetables, the book Stocking Up, by Rodale Press, copyright date 1977
>states:  By alternating layers of dried leaves with layers of produce in
>wooden boxes, they have firm and edible potatoes, apples, rutabagas,
>carrots, and beets for as long as 50 weeks after they stored them...
>Pails, baskets and watertight barrels are used just as boxes
>are...finishing with 2 inches or more of packing at the top.
>	other packing materials recommended are hay, straw, sphagnum moss, or
>damp crumpled burlap.  they actually mention old clean stockings for
>onions and garlic... stuff one into the toe, tie a knot, stuff another in
>behind the first, tie a knot, etc.
>Branwen
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