[Sca-cooks] Compost: Black Radishes, Carrots

[Daniel Myers]

On Jun 18, 2004, at 4:23 PM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> Forme of Cury 103
> Take rote of parsel, of pasternak, of rafens, scrape hem and waische 
> hem clene. Take rapes & caboches, ypared and icorue. Take an erthen 
> panne with clene water & set it on the fire; cast all (th)ise 
> (th)erinne. When (th)ey buth boiled cast (th)erto peeres, & perboile 
> hem wel. Take alle (th)ise thynges vp & lat it kele on a faire cloth. 
> Do (th)erto salt; whan it is colde, do hit in a vessel; take vinegar & 
> powdour & safroun & and do (th)erto, & lat alle (th)ise thynges lye 
> (th)erin al ny(gh)t, o(th)er al day. Take wyne greke & honey, 
> clarified togider; take lumbarde mustard & raisouns coraunce, al 
> hoole, & grynde powdour of canel, powdour douce, anys hole, & fenell 
> seed. Take alle (th)ise thynges & castt togyder in a pot of erthe, & 
> take (th)erof whan (th)ou wilt & serue forth.

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> Second, i included carrots in my Compost, which seems a common thing 
> to do among us SCAdian cooks, as well as parsnips. But carrots aren't 
> actually mentioned explicitly in the original recipe.

Pasternak can mean both carrot and parsnip - and as others have said, 
they probably used whichever they had on hand.  I can usually get 
parsnips here, so I usually use both (adds variety).

- Doc


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