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Vegetables and Potherbs

Peas(one of the most common vegetables, in pod or out)
Chick Peas
Garbanzo beans
Asparagus
Onions (present in many recipes)
Green onions (leeks, scallions)
Garlic
Beets
Squash/gord
Pumpkin (this would be different than the American variety)
Olives (the source for the most common cooking oil)
Capers
Carrots (a small variety either red or white)
Beans (fava, broadbeans, hairy vetch, sweet vetch)
Cabbage
Celery
Chard
Spinach
Greens (mustard, beet, turnip, etc.)
Parsnips
Cress
Parsley
Gherkins
Shallots
Turnips
Cucumbers
Leaf Lettuce
Brussels Sprouts


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Vegetables and Potherbs

Vegetables are an important part of a human's (or humanoid's) diet. Some have argued that vegetables were not common in medieval European's diet since there are few written recipe found in text. However vegetables were common in medieval diets. The lack of recipes is most likely due to the fact that how to cook vegetables was common knowledge and valuable parchment was not wasted on writing this down.

Vegetables, often referred to as potherbs, were cooked simply, usually by boiling in a pot, or they were eaten raw. There are usually no elaborate recipe or methods of cooking vegetables, except by gnomes and occasoinally elves.