[Sca-cooks] Beets and backfiles was Beets

[Dani]

Huette wrote:

>Although these are not English recipes, here are
>some period German recipes that call for beet
>roots of various types.

(snip)

> 7. Green salad/ that is small and young/ red
> beets cut small/ and tossed thereover/ when the
> salad is prepared/ and the red beets are
> cooked and cooled.
>

in my limited redacting experience, had I come across this recipe in
particular, I would have assumed it meant beet _greens_, since it is talking
about a green salad, and the reference to "red beets" being used here to
differentiate between the red and white varieties.

-Iuliana, curious to hear other opinions and thoroughly enjoying the beet
thread :)

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