Beetroot

I looked up recipes for Beetroot and found one in Jane Grigson’s Vegatable book for beetroot with potatoes that came from a book of recipes by Jessie Conrad, wife of the novelist Joseph. Mrs Conrad’s cookery book contained a preface written by her more famous husband who concluded that cookery books are the only truly moral books as there ‘only aim is to increase the happiness of mankind and add to the cheerfulness of nations.’ he argud that his theory was proved by the ferocity of native Indians around the Great Lakes was due to suffering from dyspepsia.