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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