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#Medieval European Vegetables

"Mixed vegetables

Most of the vegetables of the medieval European era are still popular today. For some this is a surprising fact as people tend to think that everyday life and diet in the 11th-15th century was vastly different to what we know. After all, we are talking about what was commonly grown betweeen 600 and 900 years ago!

Vegetable growing in medieval Europe included the following which are still popular today:

#BroadBean
#cabbage
#calabash
#horseradish
#leeks
#onions
#peas
#turnip
#squash
#spinach

Of these the most common medieval vegetables were cabbage and leeks. Easy to grow, easy to cook they were used extensively to make the staple food of the medieval diet – #pottage. A tasty and nourishing hot dish, you can sit and imagine you are in 12th century England as you eat it!

A 12th century garden did also contain other vegetables which you might never have heard of because they have sadly been long forgotten.

Why would that be? Well, one of the reasons is the introduction into Europe of the humble potato in the 16th century. People loved it so much in Europe that they started to grow it in favour of other vegetables.

Here are two of what I call the ‘forgotten’ medieval veggies:

#BlackRadish
#bogbean

#MedievalSalad

The ingredients used to make a medieval salad were somewhat different to what you would expect to use today. Tomatoes would not have been on the list – like the potato, the tomato was native to South America and brought back to Europe by Spanish explorers and traders in the 16th century. Here are some of the ingredients people used to make a salad:

- green leaves – spinach, #dandelion, #DockLeaves (the last two are regarded more as weeds today!)
- aromatic #herbs – mint, chives, parsley,
- petals of flowers – rose, violet, primrose, marigold
- fruit – #WildStrawberries, apples (chopped)

Visit the salad recipes page here for more information and ideas. It would not be so surprising if this kind of colourful, aromatic dish came back into fashion one day! "

Learn more:
https://www.medieval-recipes.com/medieval-garden/vegetables-salad/

#SolarPunkSunday #MedievalVegetables #ForgottenVegetables #WildEdibles #MedievalGardens #MedievalPlants

Mayen’s Heading Home — Come Along for the Ride

https://amadanesi.com/2026/06/04/mayens-heading-home-come-along-for-the-ride/

Mrs Hudson brought the tea tray, on which there also was a wooden box. A very pleasant gentleman asked to give this to you, Mr Holmes, she said. He didn't give a name and said not to disturb you.

Holmes took the box without much curiosity. Interesting cases did not usually present themselves in boxes delivered by nice gentlemen. He opened it carelessly. It was a pipe, a large Calabash with a plain meerschaum inset and silver fittings at the stem.

Holmes posture had changed; like a pointer who had smelled the bird, he stood still, his eyes fixed on the pipe in front of him. Did the gentleman wear a Bavarian felt hat, he asked. Oh, Mr Holmes, you never cease to surprise me, said Mrs Hudson cheerfully. Indeed, a green felt hat with a feather, now that you mention it. I did find it a little odd.

The Professor, Holmes whispered. He is back. Watson, take your coat, we must get the 3.42 train to Folkstone.

#MrsHudson #SherlockHolmes #DoctorWatson #Moriarty #Calabash #vss

“Keita returns with an unusually sparse sound featuring #guitar, #ngoni, #calabash, #tama and #cello.” www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a... #SalifKeita #music #GoldenVoiceofAfrica #AfricanMusic

Salif Keita: So Kono review – ...

@lydiaschoch

#JohnMastodon was a pipe smoker, like all good men. His #tobacco was Gawith & Hoggarth #BlackTwist, serious stuff, and he smoked it in a #Calabash pipe. These pipes have a Meerschaum core inserted into the hardened shell of a bent #Gourd. What was unique about John's pipe was that the gourd also served as a horn to rally the troops. In the Battle of the QTs, the Xtwitterites dispersed immediately upon hearing John's horn. John re-inserted the Meeeschaum core and resumed his smoke.

A Calabash Gourd Flower freshly blooming

North America https://www.pictorem.com/865663/White%20Calabash%20Gourd%20Flower.html

Europe https://www.artheroes.com/en/shopartwork/White-Calabash-Gourd-Flower/1261661/132?mediumId=1&size=40x30

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