[Sca-cooks] Maire tries something new.....

[Olwen the Odd]

>You guys are definitely influencing me into making more adventurous food
>choices <g>....Tonight, yours truly ate turnip greens for the first
>time.  Pretty tasty...kinda like spinach with attitude.
>My mother, I'm sure, is laughing her head off at all of this is whatever
>part of the afterlife she settled in....I *hated* greens of any sort as
>a kid.
>So...anyone know of any period recipes for turnip greens? The turnips
>themselves show up in numerous places, but the greens???
>--Maire, who also had chicken and dumplings with it, but the dumplings
>were flat, like noodles, and not big fluffy things....is that a regional
>thing?

It seems when I was reading through looking for turnip recipes I was finding
(before someones redaction) that it seems they were actually using the
greens rather than the root in many of the dishes.  Whoever did the
redactions simply used the root instead.  Even in Waverly it says that the
tops were favored and the root sent off to the barn.  Try substituting the
greens in some of those recipes.  I am not at home and have taken all my
cookbooks out of my office so cann't give you any examples right off.  Take
another look though.
Olwen

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