"CK" . wanadoo.co.uk wrote
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"Gregoire Kretz" wrote in message
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Ophelia wrote:

"Alan Holmes" wrote in message
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Found a lot of Jerusalem artichokes this year and turned to Mrs Beeton
who says, 'Wash the artichokes and peel them'!

How the hell do you peel such an irregular shaped root?

With a great deal of care and as thinly as possible)

Right.

You're then supposed to make soup - but how? Just boil in salted water
then liquidize?

Greg

Hi all,
I am surprised that no-one has mentioned my favourite way of cooking
Jerusalem Artichokes, which is roasting them.

Clean and parboil. Slip off the skins.

This is the bit I don't understand, when I cooked them with the skins on,
the 'skin', when I tried to remove it, was nearly a qusrter of an inch
thick, nothing like boiling potatoes in their skins when they do slip off
very easily.

Alan