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Vegetable better cooked - nothing old should be swallowed
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beetroot
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The beetroot is the taproot portion of the beet plant, usually known in North America as the beet , also table beet , garden beet , red beet , or golden beet . It is one of several of the cultivated varieties of Beta vulgaris grown for their edible taproots ...
Usage examples of beetroot.
Things like cauliflower, lettuce, beetroot and spinach can be safely grown in soil where bulb nematodes are a problem.
We stored like squirrels, salting beans, pickling cabbage, bottling tomatoes and beetroot, even drying any mushrooms we found in the early autumn fields.
His eyes now resembled those of the late great Peter Lorre and his face was a most distressing shade of beetroot red.
But it was too late in the year, and he would have to gnaw a raw beetroot which he might pick up in a field as he had done the day before.
Crimsoning to the hue of a beetroot and keeping an agonised watch on his slumbering fellow-traveller, he swiftly and noiselessly secured the ends of his railway-rug to the racks on either side of the carriage, so that a substantial curtain hung athwart the compartment.
He advanced through a huge beetroot field, and he ran with the others towards a fine white mist.
XXVII At the edge of the beetroot field, a few paces from the road, in the white sand of Champagne, there is a burial-ground.
Kiukiu, cheeks hot with the rising steam from the beetroot soup she was stirring on the great cooking range, sensed that Ilsi was out to cause trouble.
Gavril pushed aside the bowl of dark red beetroot soup that the landlord had brought him.
He saw a lady in a silk dress, green shot with beetroot colour, a short, thick gentleman with a round, greyish beard, in a grey suit, having a small dahlia in his buttonhole, and, behind them, Daphne Wing, flushed, and very roundeyed.
They ate poorly, selling what they could of their meagre produce and, because theirs was a farm without livestock, turnips, beetroots and potatoes became their staple diet.
Food—the roots and nuts he found, the turnips and beetroots, and potatoes he dug from farmers' fields late at night, the small animals he occasionally was able to trap and kill—already scarce was becoming even more so.
The carts had human drivers and contained vegetables resembling large beetroots, fodder for the Cattle chalikos.
Unfortunately that was difficult to do when you knew your face had turned beetroot red.
Guillemot's eyes flickered with panic at the remark, and his ears flushed beetroot red.