My parents lived in Norfolk for a while - where they are grown. I
don't think the English bothered with them much until the second major
global unpleasantness when the traditional trade from the West Indies
into Liverpool was interrupted. I do remember the stink of the
processing plants - rather nasty.
Andrew Fildes
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On 01/05/2010, at 4:35 PM, Paul Laughlin wrote:
> Sugar Beets are not much used for cooking for a meal. Although,
> when I
> was a boy on an Idaho farm, there were harvest laboreres from Missouri
> and other states that would take home a couple of sugar beets and
> slice
> them up, flour them and fry them for their supper. In those days, the
> production of sugar beets was a bit labor intensive. In the spring
> the
> beets had to be blocked. That meant one single plant every few
> inches.
> Done with a short handled hoe while bending over. Then came the
> harvest. The beats were manually topped with a long knife that had a
> kind of hook on the end of it. The hook was used to pick up the beet,
> which was placed across the knee and the knife was used to whack off
> the
> top. Then when the truck came, it involved manually throwing the
> topped
> beets onto the truck. As I said, it was labor intensive. The pulp,
> that was left after the juice containing the sugar was removed, made
> great feed for cows. Each grower was entitled to a certain amount of
> the pulp from the factory. Just a little history from some one that
> was
> there and done that.
> Paul in Portland OR
>
>
> On 4/30/2010 3:53 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> My upstate New York backyard doesn't have any cane at all. There's
>> plenty of cane in Florida but most of it is about 150-200 miles away
>> from my winter place. The cane is on the south side of Lake
>> Okeechobee.
>> While I've never seen a sugar beet I just learned that the US is
>> the
>> 4th largest producer of sugar in the world and that 50% of that is
>> from
>> sugar beets.
>> <http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/February05/Findings/Sugarbeets.htm
>> >
>> But I can't find one in the supermarket.
>>
>
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