[Sca-cooks] Turnip/rape?

[Decker, Terry D.]

Actually "rapes" are Brassica napus var. napobrassica better known as the
Swedish turnip or rutabaga or B. napus var. napus, the canola or annual
rape, close relatives of Brassica rapa var. rapa, the field turnip.  Of
course the average peasant probably called everything that looked like a
turnip, a rape.

Rapeseed are the seeds of the rutabaga and rapeseed oil is the oil pressed
from the seeds.

Canola oil is rapeseed oil which is low in erucic acid and is pressed from
the seeds of the canola.

Bear

>
> So if "rapes" are turnips, what is rapeseed?  Is it turnip seed, or a
> different plant entirely?
>
> Vicente