[Sca-cooks] Root vegetables, was: Viking cookbook

[Elizabeth A Heckert]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2001 07:30:47 -0500 (CDT) "Pixel, Goddess and Queen"
<pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com> writes:
>On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Elizabeth A Heckert wrote:

>And, referencing somebody else's post, what the heck is a mangle
>wurzel? Another UK friend of mine has mentioned them in conjunction
>with rutabagas (blech) but he didn't explain the reference.

   Swedes: Brassica napobrassica, in the US, Rutabegas--white until
cooked, they turn yellowy orange when cooked.  Not period.

   Mangel wurzel: Beta vulgaris, a beet variety fed to cattle.

   Turnips are Brassica rapa, same genus, different species.  My
understanding is that B. rapa are cattlefeed in Eurpoe, and B.
napobrassica are the people turnip.  I *don't know* how accurate the
above statement is, it was reported to me second hand.

>It's called an "eth", with a hard "th" as in "the" rather than a soft
>"th" as in "eigth", which would be a thorn.

    That is for Anglo-Saxon--does it hold true for Old Icelandic??

    Elizabeth

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