[Sca-cooks] period horseradish sauces
Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius at verizon.net
Sun Aug 31 15:18:47 PDT 2003
Also sprach CorwynWdwd at aol.com:
>In a message dated 8/31/2003 4:25:02 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>StefanliRous at austin.rr.com writes:
>
>> Does anyone know why this plant is called "horse"radish? Do horses like
>> to eat the greens?
>>
>According to Laurie Lacey's Wild World of Plants, "The popular English name,
>Horseradish, means a coarse radish, to distinguish it from the edible
>radish...." Can't say that I find the horse radish inedable though....
Horse mushrooms, so named for similar reasons, are also good. I can't
vouch for horse chestnuts, though.
Adamantius
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