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- From: dadams@cray.com (David Adams)
- Subject: Re: horseradish
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.112838.24020@hemlock.cray.com>
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov13.195735.26331@math.ucla.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 11:28:38 CST
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- In article 26331@math.ucla.edu, ramirez@julia.math.ucla.edu (Alice Ramirez) writes:
- |I think horseradish must be one of those plants that in some locales
- |turns into a rampant weed and in other places struggles along. I have
- |heard that horseradish can be QUITE invasive, but you'd never know it from
- |my garden. Here on my "homestead" in ol' La-La Land it has stayed the
- |same size for about 5 years, putting out green leaves part of the year,
- |then dying back to the roots for a few months. It may have gotten slightly
- |bigger, but has not spread in any outrageous way the way my horehound
- |has done, or those horrid wild passionfruit weeds (P. caerulia).
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- Wow! Somebody else uses horehound. Nasty stuff isn't it? Please
- tell us how you use it.
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- |
- |I could not tell from the email address where the person lived who had
- |difficulty growing horse radish. Is Cray located in California? Maybe
- |horseradish needs more winterchilling, or more humidity, to thrive and
-
- Nope. I'm in Minnesota. Humid summers and awful artic winters. ;^)
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- |spread. I don't know how to prepare it. I planted my own as a curiosity.
- |Frankly I can't stand the taste of the stuff. I believe roots are simply
- |dug up and grated and mixed with vinegar. I once knew a Polish women who
- |mixed horseradish with shredded beets to make a condiment that was semi-
- |bearable over beef and pork.
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- I bought this kosher variety of horseraddish once. I believe it was
- intended for use at passover? Anyway it was horseraddish mixed with
- beets. It wasn't my favorite way to eat it. I like the horseraddish
- stronger and I didn't like the beet in it.
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- --David C. Adams Statistician Cray Research Inc. dadams@cray.com
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