[Sca-cooks] Viking cookbook swedes and turnips

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Hrolf Douglasson wrote:
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>>""> Umm,  I have no idea if someone earlier has mentioned this.  But
>>swedes are turnips, usually the type that are white with purple bits.
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> The white small things with purple tops are TURNIPS in the UK.
> Swedes are larger About the size of a cob loaf to the size of a football and
> are in no way related to potatos. They are a member of the mangle wurzel
> family and were introduced to the UK in the early middle ages.  After the
> normans but berfore the tudors.

Swedes are the yellow turnips known as turnips in _Scotland_, although
not in the rest of the UK, while commonly called either turnips/yellow
turnips or rutabaga in the U.S. (I believe it was an American who asked
about this).

Adamantius
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