0 the small, round, dark red root of a plant, eaten cooked as a vegetable, especially cold in salads
All round the house there was a garden, crammed with flowers, and potatoes, and beetroots, and cabbages.
Outside was an enclosed garden with cabbages, peas, beans, beetroots, onions, garlic, leeks, lettuce, watercress, hops, herbs, nut trees for oil, some flowers, and a fish pond and well.
Slice the eggs and beetroot, and arrange alternate slices of egg and beetroot round the base of the potato snow.
You can colour the sauce red by adding a little beetroot, and make the sauce hot by adding a little grated horse- radish.
Most commonly potatoes, sometimes carrots, beetroots, onions, garlic and marrows were cultivated in the allotments, and in the south melons and watermelons.
The price of beetroot is at present exceptionally high.
The beetroot goes to the factory, and the pulp is dried and stored and used for feeding cattle, and so on.
