[Sca-cooks] Earthapples Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 18, Issue 57

[Terry Decker]

Jerusalem artichoke is a New World food which caught on in the late 16th
Century.  It is a sunflower root.

Bear


> 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.
>
> Finne