[Sca-cooks] Carrots and Rice

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

Depends. Charlemagne's Capitulary De Villis famously includes a long list  
of vegetables and herbs to be grown (even if translations of these tend to 
be  iffy). 
 
_http://books.google.com/books?id=oJowAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22de%20villis%22%20jardin
&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false_ 
(http://books.google.com/books?id=oJowAAAAYAAJ&dq="de%20villis"%20jardin&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false) 
 
 
The 1321 accounts for a future bishop's estate mention wild leeks, leeks,  
cabbage, onions, scallions, garlic, broad beans, peas, spinach, lettuce, 
borage,  orache, chard or cardoon, spring onion, parsley, hyssop, Caulet 
cabbage, and  clary.
 
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/04/beyond-peacocks-what-most-medieval.html

No doubt similar accounts can be found, as well as the various literary  
references to specific foods.
 
Otherwise, there are non-manorial sources. A 14th century dietetic for a  
monastery in Liege mentions: broad beans, peas with bacon; long vegetables,  
leeks (as a dish, in tarts, balls, in scabwort); greens in milk, turnip 
greens  (in milk); greens/herbs; parsley, parsley roots, hyssop; root 
vegetables; onions  and green onions, civet (with onions), garlic, yellow garlic.
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-fourteenth-century-dietetic-belgian.h
tml
 
Among the foods at the hospital of Hesdin were broad beans, peas, beets,  
borage, cress, parsley, onion, garlic, apples, pears, walnuts, cherries,  
peaches, and strawberries.
http://leslefts.blogspot.com/2014/03/french-hospital-food-in-middle-ages.htm
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Jim Chevallier

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In a message dated 9/7/2014 12:53:19 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
lordhunt at gmail.com writes:
I ask because vegetables and fruits don’t appear  in accounts of medieval 
manors. I suppose they were collecting their seeds and  planting them instead 
of going to a garden center to buy a package.