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Skirret: the forgotten Tudor vegetable
'The sweetest, whitest and most pleasant of roots,” raves gentleman gardener John Worlidge in his 1677 Systema Horticulturae, or, The Art of Gardening. “Pleasant and wholesome,” agrees Culpeper’s Complete Herbal. Yet the subtle sweetness of the modest skirret, noted by Pliny as the Emperor Tiberius’s favourite and a mainstay of Tudor tables, is all but lost today. Unfussy in most soils, resistant to disease and relishing frost, this sweet...
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Hummmm,that looks nice. I wonder if it tastes like a sun choke?