[Sca-cooks] Honey-Roasted Beets

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Sep 4, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Tom Vincent wrote:

> Oh, of course...toot away.  You're welcome!
>
> Duriel

I don't think this is a case of tooting. If it had been cabbage or  
turnips, maybe...

But in this case your premise seems to have been that there are all  
these unsuitable-for-feasts beet recipes from period, so instead  
you're posting this lovely modern beet recipe. And it's a fine  
recipe, but what's not clear is how it is an improvement over the  
unspecified shortcomings of period beet recipes. You have, in short,  
posted not just a nice recipe, but a comparison and something of a  
challenge, so it's no surprise that some people rose to it.

I posted a few ideas on the existence of several [good] period beet  
recipes, from memory, and Johnna mentioned her own personal knowledge  
of a file in the Florilegium (an archive maintained by someone else,  
mind you) on the subject, which she knows is there because she's seen  
it, and wrote much of it. This is not tooting, it is a very basic  
form of documentation, and there's nothing at all wrong with it.

Adamantius