[Sca-cooks] Parsnips

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Here's a mini-debate about whether de Serres had anteriority or not:
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=IlE6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA110-IA9&dq=%22history+of
+sugar%22+serres&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wt8xVNmeNcmxogSuoIKYDg&ved=0CCIQuwUwAA#v=onep
age&q=%22history%20of%20sugar%22%20serres&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=IlE6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA110-IA9&dq="history+of+sugar"+serres&hl=en&sa=X&e
i=wt8xVNmeNcmxogSuoIKYDg&ved=0CCIQuwUwAA#v=onepage&q="history%20of%20sugar"%
20serres&f=false) 
 
Here's his note on the beet, which he says had recently come from Italy. He 
 seems more interested in the nice look of the sugar like syrup than its 
actual  taste:
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=OilAAAAAcAAJ&dq=inauthor%3Aserres&pg=PA483
#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=OilAAAAAcAAJ&dq=inauthor:serres&pg=PA483#v=onepage&q&f=false) 
 
I don't see anything about sugar under carrots.
 
Jim  Chevallier

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"Demarquet  does not know how to lie or slander; I believe him loyal and 
sincere."
Simon  Bolivar  

 
In a message dated 10/5/2014 4:14:32 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
t.d.decker at att.net writes:

To my  knowledge, the earliest reference to producing a sweet syrup from 
carrots  and red beets is found in Olivier de Serres just at the end of the 
16th  Century.