[Sca-cooks] Earthapples

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

>
>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