[Sca-cooks] Carrots

[Kathleen Roberts]

If you haven't worked with them, beware that the red/purple carrots turn every other color in the pot dingy if not purple.  These are best roasted.

Cailte

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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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