[Sca-cooks] Looking for references to orange carrots

[wheezul at canby.com]

Hi Everyone -

May I say how much fun I have had reading?  Stefan, I know I owe you an
answer still too.

Interestingly I have been combing through the Munich State Digital
Collection since the kind soul posted those German cookbook links and
would like to point folks in turn towards an author search for Walther
Hermann Ryff, who wrote medical treatises, health manuals, cookbooks,
childbirth manuals, botanical, apothocary confections and much more. 
(Also search for more cool stuff on google books).

I am buzzing about the following book because it pictures animals and
plants, gives uses and care instructions, and further medical uses as well
as culinary ones for all items concerning general health.  Really, I mean
buzzing!  (Ok, I know I'm new and enthusiastic...)

http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/ausgaben/uni_ausgabe.html?projekt=1174066449

search for
Ryff, Walther Hermann:
Lustgarten der Gesundtheit. - Frankfurt, 1546
Signatur: Res/2 Oecon. 89
[2008-10-08]
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00029507-1

The file is huge, but worth the wait.

The carrot is featured on page 247 of the pdf, with a notation that
acreage is grown of the 'gelb' carrot near Cologne, but a 'roter' is grown
near Strassburg. Since the descriptions both use the word rübe, which can
be translated as beet, I don't know if the discussion about the two types
means a yellow and a more reddish carrot or a yellow carrot and a red beet
or not.  It does seem that the illustration and attribution as daucia
signifies a carrot, and there is the notation that the gelb one is found
wild.  On page 217 is the description of the Mangolt with the note that
the large red ones from Meissen are known as rote Rüben.  However, Meissen
is not anywhere near Strassburg in the Alsace.   All I know at this point
is that there is so much to learn.

The woodcuts alone are worth the download wait.

Katrine who now has several more thousand pages of period books to read!
An Tir