SC - Quality of ingredients

[Uduido@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-09-29 14:08:37 EDT, you write:

<< Does anyone know if
 boiling it in the skin might have had some hideous effect? >>

I have never pre-cooked turnips before using. I would suggest that the
re-cooking of the turnips may have caused the bitterness. (Left-over
turnips[e.g. re-heated] are not a pleasant thing.)

Another cause may have been the way the turnip was grown and/or it's age.. As
with most vegetables they are sweeter and tenderer when consumed young. Older
turnips are somewhat woody and bitter. Alternatively, turnips are a COOL
weather crop and if  grown AND harvested in hot weather they develope a
decidedly bitter quality.

Lord Ras
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