Hamburg parsley root ✦

Persil tubéreux

What it is

It reached English gardens from Germany in the eighteenth century and then quietly left them, while Poland kept it as a fixed member of włoszczyzna, the bundle of soup roots sold tied together in every market. The leaves are ordinary parsley; the plant simply puts its year into the root instead.

In the kitchen

Cook it in milk or in a lemony court-bouillon; it browns fast in a pan and the burnt note is not pleasant. Add its own leaves at the end — they are parsley, and they put back the green the cooking takes out.

Goes with

Butter Cream Parsley Nutmeg Chicken Carrot Bay leaf Hazelnut

Same species

Parsley

In season alongside

Arbutus berry Beetroot Blackberry Bleu de Termignon Borlotti bean Brussels sprout

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