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Date Posted: Sun, May 22 2022, 8:28:40
Author: Kathy in PA
Subject: QOTD for Sunday, May 22, 2022. From Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon


Chapter 70
The Gathering


“When you make bashed neeps,” I said. “be sure to boil the tops along with the turnips. Then save the pot liquor and give it to the children; you take some too-it’s good for your milk.

Maisri Buchanan pressed her smallest child to her breast and nodded solemnly, committing my advice to memory. I could not persuade most of the new immigrants either to eat fresh greens or to feed the go their families, but now and then I found opportunity to introduce a bit of vitamin C surreptitiously into their usual diet - which consisted for the most part of oatmeal and venison.



This is actually from Theresa Carle-Sanders’s “Outlander Kitchen” Cookbook.
She used this quote with her recipe for vegetable stock. When I thought of coming up with a quote quickly, I grabbed this book for an idea. That and her second book “Outlander Kitchen. To The New World and Beyond” are a feast to read and look at the beautiful pictures. That all recipes are based on the books and she uses the relevant quote for each is really super.

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