[Sca-cooks] Carrots in Dutch paintings - white

[Sandra Jakl]

*Another thought pops into head*

If I recall from when I looked at the paintings
earlier, The scale is off, but the color and shape are
about right for parsley root!

-Clara von Ulm

Who just used some parsely root the other day in a
period German recipe...


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Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 01:07:36 -0600
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It could possibly be a long rooted turnip but in the
Gerard drawing it 
is
still not as long and still a bit bulbous. There is a
possibility of 
them
being wild turnips or something in the turnip family.
There is also the
possibility of the white veggie being a radish.

Lyse

-----Original Message-----
Thanks for this terrific website,  Huette!

It would seem to me that the white carrot-like things
with the greens 
still
attached are turnips, as turnip greens were eaten
along with the root. 
I
believe that Gerrard shows the turnip root as long,
rather than the 
bulbous
ones we
have today.

The orange and purplish ones (the color on my computer
is not very good
either) with the greens neatly docked would be
carrots, as their greens 
are
not
eaten.

These are fascinating pix! I'm am especially
interestly in the salmon 
steak
hanging from a nail. Was thsi for display or for
ageing? Likewise one
painting
had what looked like ray-type fishes displayed. Were
rays eaten and has
anyone
seen a recipe?

Renata ::Dusting off my Art History degree::


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