"Brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:10:03 -0600, Janet Bostwick
> > wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:21:26 +0800, JBurns >
>>wrote:
>>snip
>>>>That sounds absolutely delicious. I'm curious about the 'red
>>>>beetroot'. Here in the US, we would probably just say beets --
>>>>understood to be red. Is red beetroot just the way they are referred
>>>>to there or do you actually commonly use the golden or stripped
>>>>varieties?
>>>>Janet US
>>>
>>>The common variety is red, and people here would understand you to
>>>mean that if you said you were having betroot. I just qualified
>>>because I have a few colours - red, yellow and the stripy white/pink
>>>ones.
>>>
>>>In Australia we do call them beetroot rather then beets.
>>>
>>>I love them and will take them anyway they come, even from a can.
>>>
>>>I saw an interesting recipe on an English cooking show, it was a
>>>potato & beetroot gratin. Like scalloped potatoes. I might try that
>>>even though the potatoes ended up an odd shade of pink!
>>>
>>>JB
>>thanks. I always like to get the terms right.
>
> I like pickled beets but I love Harvard Beets.

Harvard Beets?

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