[Sca-cooks] Earthapples Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 18, Issue 57
Terry Decker
t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net
Mon Nov 15 11:01:16 PST 2004
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
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