[Sca-cooks] Fwd: mystery vegetable

[Laura C. Minnick]

At 12:55 AM 4/21/02 -0400, you wrote:
>I have no idea, but that is a cool site! There is a section on medieval
>gastronomy! (OK, it's in French... I can at least muddle through. But
>lots of pictures!)
>
>Mushrooms? They are round and brown...  wild guess, I admit.
>
>Anne

It is a cool site- one of my faves. The brown things? At first I thought
turnips, by size, but turnips are usually shown as white. Mushrooms could
be, if they're big, but would they peel them? What is usually served with
or in boar?

'Lainie
-just as mystified as you
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