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the carrot's pale cousin who got sweeter after surviving a frost
means A pale, cream-colored root vegetable with a sweet, earthy flavor, related to the carrot and eaten cooked.
from From Latin 'pastinaca,' the Roman name for the plant — likely linked to 'pastinum,' a two-pronged digging fork used to lift such roots from the ground. The word traveled through Old French ('pasnaie') into Middle English, where it picked up an extra '-p' by association with words like 'turnip' and 'neep,' the old word for turnip.
- sugar trick
- Cold turns its starch into sugar
- roman currency
- Once so prized it paid tribute and bills
- pre-sugar sweetener
- Used for jam and wine before cane sugar
- toxic leaves
- Sap can burn skin in sunlight
- wild danger
- Wild parsnip resembles deadly poison hemlock
hollow crown parsnip — heirloom variety with a distinctive concave top, popular in english gardens since the 1800s
guernsey parsnip — long, thin variety traditionally grown on the channel island of guernsey for exhibitions and cooking
harris model parsnip — american variety bred by harris seeds in the early 1900s, known for uniform roots and disease resistance