[Sca-cooks] Earthapples
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
ranvaig at columbus.rr.com
Sat Nov 13 22:13:37 PST 2004
>
>there's also a dutch word aardpeer wich literally translated ends up
>as earthpear. It's Helianthus tuberosus or Jerusalem artichoke,
>sunchoke, topinanbour (pick one I guess :))
>
>I have no idea wether this was used in period tho, (don't even know
>where it originated from), I only konw it was eaten during WW2 as a
>replacement for potatoes.
Jerusalem artichoke is New world, and at best was a very late period
novelty. I don't have any information on when it was introduced.
Ranvaig
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