1. 11 Jun


    Claire’s Vegetable Stock from DOA “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 them to 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. Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn (Chapter 70 - The Gathering)

    Claire’s Vegetable Stock from DOA

    “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 them to 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.

    Diana Gabaldon, Drums of Autumn (Chapter 70 - The Gathering)