[Sca-cooks] Skirrets

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> > Nichol's Garden Nursery catalog carries skirrets seeds.
>
> okay, I have to ask, what's a "skirret"? I take it it's a plant, and edible,
> but what's the genus and what does it look like? Uses? Please describe this
> new thing for those of us who don't have a clue what you're talking about.

Well, as discussed in another thread here, skirrets are a root vegetable.
I've never successfully grown them, but there's a description of them in
_Food and Drink of Medieval Poland_. They have long weedy stems and you
harvest the roots (which I have never heard of being available for sale in
the US) after frost, apparently.

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