[Sca-cooks] Re: turnips

[Susan Fox-Davis]

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>>>Is there anywhere, a documented name for this dish which downplays the
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>>>"turnip" as such?  Armoured vegetables?  Armored neeps?  I want to serve
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>>>this to a very mainstream group without scaring them off.
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>>>Selene
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>>The name is already translated from Latin, so maybe if you 
>>translate it
>>into French? Everything sounds better in French.
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True enow.  Turnip in French is "navet."  Navets arme'es.  Sounds better 
already!  
I hope the patrons will merely see "stuff in cheese sauce" and go for it.

>Whatever you do, however, it's probably best to avoid having the term "rapes" on the menu.  People have a tendency to take that one sooooo
>wrong!  :)
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Bwahahaha!  I just went through that one last night with one of my newer 
Period Cookery students.  I think she and I will stick with Mac and 
Cheese for the time being.  <grin>

Selene the Cheezy