[Sca-cooks] RE: Apples and turnips msg 12 digest, Vol 1 #3042

[Nancy Kiel]

Sometimes references to beets means the greens, not the roots.  You might
look at other receipts using beets for context---for example, a receipt
calling for spinach, sorrel, parsley and beets probably means the greens.



Nancy Kiel
nancy_kiel at hotmail.com
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.   Emerson


>Bezzin according to Christa Baufeld in the ‘Kleines fru:ehneuhochdeutsches
>Wo:erterbuch’ is beta, [Beet, Root, Chard, Bot.  Beta Vulgaris L.]
>Some links if you are curious about the actual botanical
>http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/b/beetro28.html
>
>http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Beta_vulgaris.html
>
>
>I am venturing what was meant is:
>Take [the above ] and pound them together, and press it out, that the
>parsley
>receives [the color of the beet?]  That is also called agraz.
>
>I think Baufeld makes it clear that it is not a turnip, though it seems
>there
>were white beets.  Perhaps what they mean is to mush it together till the
>red
>from the beet colors the green parsley and whatever pale/gold/brown the
>apples
>would add.   I don’t have any of the ingredients to hand, so cant try it
>with
>beet root, beet green, parsley green, parsley root [though I find this less
>likely, it should perhaps be considered?], crab apples, other perhaps
>period
>apples [GRINS – Look in the Florilegium, Im CERTAIN there is a file on
>period
>apples and other fruit]
>


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