[Sca-cooks] period mashed turnips

[Mark.S Harris]

Adamantius said:
> AA F Murphy wrote
> > I got some turnips the other day, and went through your florifiles. Lots
> > of turnip recipes! Then I looked more closely ... lots of armored
> > turnips and rapes in pottage... many variations of both, but not much
> > else. I'll probably try the second, but anyone have any suggestions for
> > anything else? I want to start actually cooking something, not just
> > reading about it.
>
> I STR a recipe in Le Menagier which involves frying strips of turnips
> and then sprinkling them with spice powder, and then there's their
> presence in English compost recipes. I believe there are also recipes
> for turnip tarts of various types (late period), and quite a few uses
> for turnip greens.

Thanks for this additional recipe description. This is the first I
remember this one being mentioned. This reminds me most of a recent,
modern recipe that was given here, except that recipe used
horseradish rather than turnips for this. That's a recipe that is
on my list to try sometime.

Yes, turnips do show up in various compost recipes. In the Florilegium,
the compost recipes are in the compost-msg file, and some can still
be found in the pickled-foods-msg file.

Any turnip tart recipes, although I don't remember any, are likely
to be in the pies-msg or turnips-msg files.

I think anything I might have on turnip greens is likely to be in
the salads-msg or vegetables-msg file. Maybe there are enough
period steamed/stewed greens that I should create a greens-msg file
or some such.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net