The 1830 book The Practice of Cookery includes a recipe for a beer made with mangelwurzel.

Jack o' Lantern carving is thought to come from Ireland, where turnips, mangelwurzel or beets were used.

Teams of three hurled mangelwurzels in turn, aiming to be the closest to a large leafless mangelwurzel known as 'the Norman'.

The mangelwurzel is featured in the 1984 novel Jitterbug Perfume written by Tom Robbins.

A mangelwurzel hurling championship was revived in the north Wiltshire village of Sherston on October 7, 2006.

En route, you pass through what the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would probably call planet Mangelwurzel, otherwise known as Swaffham.

The mangelwurzel has a history in England of being used for sport, for celebration, for animal fodder and for the brewing of a potent alcoholic beverage.

More unusual recorded foods include chocolate and cocoa beans, coffee substitute, cookies, dried mangelwurzel, and even the toxic seeds of Jimsonweed (Datura stramonium).

Considered a crop for cool-temperate climates, the mangelwurzel sown in autumn can be grown as a winter crop in warm-temperate to sub-tropical climates.

His student, Franz Karl Achard, evaluated 23 varieties of mangelwurzel for sugar content and selected a local race from Halberstadt in modern-day Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

The mangelwurzel also had a role in the cult TV kids show as Worzel Gummidge's head, where it could often be heard to say things like "go boil your head."

The sugar decorations are believed to have come into general use some time after sugar manufactured from mangelwurzel became widely affordable in the early 19th century, but around the turn of the 20th century at the latest.

However, other cultivated varieties include the leaf vegetable chard, as well as the root vegetable sugar beet, which is important in the production of table sugar, and mangelwurzel, which is a fodder crop.

It appears to be short for mangelwurzel, a crop grown to feed livestock, and 'wurzel' is also sometimes used in the UK (perhaps only as a result of the band's name) as a synonym for 'yokel'.

The main character Alobar originally hails from a Slavic nation where beets are quite prevalent, and eventually the mangelwurzel is used as the base note in the mysterious perfume from which the book derives its name.

But there was no one more popular than Rambling Sid Rumpoe, the folk singer, who would at the drop of a mangelwurzel sing 'The Runcorne Splodcobblers Song', sung by the splodcobblers of Runcorne as they thump their cordwaggle bellow afore cobbling their splods.

Mangelwurzel or mangold wurzel (from German Mangel/Mangold, "chard", and Wurzel, "root"), also called mangold, mangel beet, field beet and fodder beet, is a cultivated root vegetable derived from Beta vulgaris.

Mangelwurzel or mangold wurzel (from German Mangel/Mangold, "chard", and Wurzel, "root"), also called mangold, mangel beet, field beet and fodder beet, is a cultivated root vegetable derived from Beta vulgaris.

Mangelwurzel or mangold wurzel (from German Mangel/Mangold, "chard", and Wurzel, "root"), also called mangold, mangel beet, field beet and fodder beet, is a cultivated root vegetable derived from Beta vulgaris.

The most important hosts however are sugarbeet and fodder beet.

"In the next chapter of his life he spent the summer drawing fodder beet.

In 1920 the company began to expand its business into corn, fodder beet and potato breeding.

The most commonly grown crops are barley, wheat, fodder beet, potatoes and garden vegetables.

There are large fruit plantations and acres mainly used for crops, corn and fodder beets.

Mangelwurzel or fodder beet.

Forms of B. vulgaris are fodder beet (Mangelwurzel) and sugar beet.

The report identified the main types of GM crops in Britain as oilseed rape, sugar beet, fodder beet, maize and potatoes.

Marggraf's student and successor Franz Karl Achard began selectively breeding sugar beet from the 'White Silesian' fodder beet in 1784.

Working demonstrations of lifting, chopping and clamping will feature at the first UK National Fodder Beet Day, Steanbow Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, on Tue, Oct 29.

Fodders include alfalfa and lucernes, berseem and bancheri, the leaves, stems or trimmings of banana, cassava, fodder beet, halfa, ipil-ipil and kenaf, maize, oats, pandarus, peanut, sorghum, soybean, sugarcane, bagasse and turnips.

Mangelwurzel or mangold wurzel (from German Mangel/Mangold, "chard", and Wurzel, "root"), also called mangold, mangel beet, field beet and fodder beet, is a cultivated root vegetable derived from Beta vulgaris.

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