[Sca-cooks] RE Beets and backfiles was Beets was Vol 9, Issue 13

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It makes sense to me.  Otherwise, you'd have cooked greens put on top of fresh greens...

Kiri
> Greetings all,
> 
> Not having Rumpolt at work, I went and hunted up the German on Thomas' 
> site.  It really does list 2 separate ingredients:
> 
> green salad that is small and young
> AND
> red beets that have been cooked, cooled, cut small and tossed over the 
> salad when it is prepared.
> 
> So perhaps green leafy things topped with cut up cooked red things?
> 
> my interpretation and zwei Pfennige worth
> 
> Gwen Cat
> 
> 7. Gruen Salat/ der klein vnnd jung ist/ rote Ruben klein geschnitten/ 
> vnd darueber geworffen/ wenn der Salat angemacht ist/ vnnd die rote 
> Ruben gesotten vnd kalt seyn. 
> 
> 
> >Message: 1
> >Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:49:22 -0800
> >From: david friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>
> >Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Beets and backfiles was Beets
> >To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
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> >Huette writes:
> >
> >>david friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>
> >>wrote:
> >
> >...
> >
> >>  > >>From Marx Rumpolt, 1581:
> >>>  >
> >>>  >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.
> >>
> >>I am of two minds over this recipe.  It does say
> >>green salad.  However, the last part talks about
> >>cooking and cooling the beets, which I don't
> >>think has to be done with the greens.  Why cook
> >>something that doesn't need cooking?d  To me,
> >>this indicates the root, which does need cooking.
> >
> >C. Anne Wilson says "The Romans grew beet, mallow and orache for the 
> >seek of their green leaves, which were boiled in pottages ...  ." Le 
> >Menagier has "Take your cress and parboil it with a handful of 
> >chopped beet leaves, and fry them in oil, " Al Baghdadi has cooked 
> >beet leaves in Adasiya.
> >
> >>  >David/Cariadoc
> >http://www.daviddfriedman.com/From 
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