[Sca-cooks] Carrots

[James Prescott]

Last month my ordinary supermarket was selling packages of four 
different colours of carrot, with the implication that they were 
heritage.  If I remember correctly, there were white, red, and yellow, 
as well as a couple of orange.  I don't know if they are still being sold.

Thorvald


On 2014-09-06, 15:00, Terry Decker wrote:
> Usually, I just ignore the issue.  According to a number of sources
> (which may be proved wrong by DNA analysis), the orange carrot is
> derived from the yellow. Ibn-al-Awwam noted carrots being cultivated at
> Seville in the 12th Century. There are no particular details about the
> plant, but they were likely red carrots which started appearing in other
> European countries in the 13th and 14th Century. Prior to the 13th
> Century in Europe, white carrots would have been the norm and they
> persisted in French cooking until well after red and yellow carrots
> became the established order. I don't know of a commercial source for
> white carrots, but the dark purple "reds" are available at some
> specialty grocers. The forerunners of the modern orange carrots started
> showing up in the Netherlands and England in the 16th Century.
>
> I have seen no contemporary reference that ties the development of the
> orange carrot to he House of Orange. The hybridization was to produce a
> sweeter, better textured carrot and the color was incidental nationalism.
>
> Bear
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Susan Lord Williams
>
> 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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