Vegetable
Black Salsify
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Black salsify is the market name: sooty skin, cream flesh, milder and often nicer than white salsify, a Belgian and German winter root (schorseneren, Schwarzwurzel). Peel and cook at once. White salsify is the other plant.
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Characteristics
Preparations
FryMashPeel At Once
Traits
Belgian GermanCream FleshNot White SpeciesOften NicerSchorsenerenSooty SkinWinterWinter Market
History
BE
Low Countries and German gardens grew black salsify as a winter root.
DE
Schwarzwurzel was a named market vegetable.
Black salsify returned to restaurant winter menus.