[pbs] culinary muscari - on topic
Christine Council
scamp at earthlink.net
Tue Feb 10 20:58:37 EST 2009
Hi,
This is way off topic but I can't find anybody to ask other than the nice
people in this group. What can you tell me about growing banana plants?
I love to eat bananas but I have not had much luck growing them. I have
tried to grow the corms, the bush and the trees. Please help me. I would
like to eat some home grown bananas before my time is up. I haven't been
writing to the group because of illness but I try to read and learn
scamp at earthlink.net
Thanks,
Chris Council
-----Original Message-----
From: pbs-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]
On Behalf Of Jane McGary
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 6:55 PM
To: Pacific Bulb Society
Subject: Re: [pbs] culinary muscari - on topic
Diane wrote,
At 11:52 AM 2/10/2009, you wrote:
>Yesterday I was served some "balsamic onions" which were muscari
>bulbs. They tasted good.
>
>They are from Italy, called cipollini, and are Muscari comosum.
>Cornucopia II says that M. comosum is really Leopoldia comosa, tassel
>hyacinth, and that it is also eaten in Greece. Wild bulbs are
>preferred to cultivated ones. I'm not growing that one.
Cipolline are not muscari bulbs, they are a variety of the cultivated
onion (Allium). They are now increasingly seen in supermarkets here
and starts can be purchased from Territorial Seed. They are small and
very flattened in shape. They are tasty and rather hard to prepare
because the stem tends to go all through the center and you have to
cut it loose. The "balsamic" in the dish described probably was the
vinegar used in the preparation.
Muscari comosum is eaten in Greece and I have tried it, but it was
too bitter for me, even though they leach out some of the compounds
in preparing it. Leopoldia is an older synonym for the "tassel"
muscari species; it has been sunk in Muscari now.
Jane McGary
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