[Sca-cooks] Celery or Celeriac

[a5foil]

At a guess, they're finding seed. Soft plant parts aren't generally
recognizable after 10 centuries!

I checked in Ann Hagen's books on Anglo-Saxon food, and she mentions that
celery was cooked.

In the Plan of St. Gall, it's shown in the herb garden inside the walls. The
discussion indicates that root crops were grown outside the walls, but the
celery is right next to the onions and leeks. Possibly, being frugal, both
stalks and roots were used.

On the other hand, Hagen says that the finds at the Viking sites are likely
to be wild, rather than cultivated, celery. I don't know if wild celery
would have had edible stalks.

Cynara



----- Original Message -----
From: "Cathy Harding" <charding at nwlink.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 1:51 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Celery or Celeriac


> A number of archeological surveys of vegetable traces in middens, etc from
> Jorvik, hedeby and other 9th to 12 c sites list celery as one of the
> vegetables found.  There isn't any note of which part of the plant they
are
> finding.  i would like to know or perhaps best guess, which it might be.
>
> Any Ideas?
>
> Maeva
> (in Glymm Mere, An Tir)
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