[Sca-cooks] Carrots

[Susan Lin]

If I am using carrots I use carrots.  If I can find the "heirloom" variety
in colors I may use them (price always being a factor) and if I am writing
a menu I may mention the story of orange carrots but as I am not in a
position to find or grow carrots in period colors I accept them as they are
now and hope that those who know the story accept them and do not judge me
too critically.

Shoshanah


On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Susan Lord Williams <lordhunt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> How do you handle carrots in medieval feasts as they were not orange until
> the Dutch developed them with the rise of the House of Orange?
>
> Technically, medieval carrots should be white. Do I recall red carrots at
> some point? Sometimes I have found white carrots in Spanish markets but not
> in America.
>
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