Heart to Hearth Cookery

Pictured are the purple (red) carrots that I used for the 17th century receipt (recipe) To pickle any thinge greene: my second Cousen Clerke.  Daucus carota (the botanical name for carrots) has a very hazy history of origin as archaeological evidence is scanty.  In England in the 15th century artists painted carrots as purple (red) and in the mid-16th century English paintings both orange and white taproots appear. Carrots were not known to the New World until 1609 when English colonists planted them in Virginia.

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