[Sca-cooks] taro, ginger beer etc.

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I can at least support taro in China in late antiquity.

In Qimin Yaoshu (544 CE, NE China), the word for Taro (芋*) appears in 5 of
the ten scrolls: http://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&res=537732&searchu=%E8%8A%8B

Scroll two mentions planting taro: 《種芋第十六》"Chapter 16: Planting Taro."  It
quotes from the Shuowen Jiezi (100 CE), so taro goes back at least that far.

Scroll 4 is another planting method for taro.

Scroll 7 is only mentioned in an annotation, and it's wordy so I'm not
going to read through in full detail.

Scroll 8 is the soup recipe I translated in my post.

Scroll 10 is using taro stems to describe the qualities of stems of other
non-Chinese native plants such as sugar cane and banana.


* I hope this renders for you, since if you're having problems rendering
the unicode characters for thorn, eth, and accented o in my name, you're
probably also not going to render Chinese characters either.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 1:22 PM, Stefan li Rous <stefanlirous at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Madhavi asked some questions to ??rfinnr Hr??geirsson, and I wanted to
> comment on some of this, separate from this translation effort.
>
> <<< "Taro seed"- what was the original term? Do you mean Colocasia
> esculenta? Because I grow Colocasia esculenta, and it has no seeds. The
> parts you eat are the root (actually a corm) and the leaves. It's an
> elephant ear plant.  >>>
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> Where and when was taro used in medieval times? I have only a small file
> on taro in the Florilegium,
> taro-msg (4K) 2/10/14 Use of the taro plant in period.
> and my knowledge of taro is minimal, mostly from grade school social
> studies classes. I'd love to get more info, an article, bibliography etc.
> to put in the Florilegium.
>
> <<< often sweetened and spiced like a medieval ginger beer. >>>
> Again, a subject I have little info on. I would love to get more info on
> ginger beer, ginger tea etc. What is the difference between ginger tea and
> ginger beer? If the latter alcoholic and the former isn't?
>
> Thanks,
>     Stefan
> --------
> THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          StefanliRous at gmail.com
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