[Sca-cooks] OT 1940's House

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Kirrily Robert:
>Elizabeth asked:
>>    I just saw the 'back-in-time' experiment to 1940s Britain on the local
>>  PBS station.  I could have *sworn* the narrator suggested that a war-time
>>  recipe innovator had come up with a way to make honey out of boiled
>>  parsley.  I was not taping it, so I can't go back and check.  Did anyone
>>  else see it, or does anyone have an interest WWII cooking substitutions
>>  who can answer my question??
>
>I caught it on TV last night too, and they definitely said that about
>the boiled parsley, yes.  I have no idea how you're meant to do it,
>though!

It occurs to me, having cooked things like parsnips in plain, salted
water, and gotten a syrupy liquid in the bottom of the pan, that one
might boil the roots of parsley (maybe wild?) and get some kind of
sugary stuff, which, by the time it is boiled down until thick, might
have something like the aggressive flavor of honey, or vaguely close
to it...

Adamantius
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