[Sca-cooks] Carrots and Rice

[Laura C. Minnick]

> 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.
>   

There's a listing in a Carolingian manorial record called the 
Capitulaire de Villis (basically instructions from Charles to the 
managers of his estates) online at 
http://www.le.ac.uk/hi/polyptyques/capitulare/latin2english.html The 
food-related stuff is near the bottom of the page.

Liutgard
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