[Sca-cooks] Platina's turnips

[Stefan li Rous]

I searched the Florilegium turnips-msg file, but didn't find a recipe  
from Platina for turnips, but I did find this message:
<<<< Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 08:38:13 -0700
From: Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] suggestions
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>

Duriel wrote:
 > Turnips are a good period replacement for potatoes.  A very
 > unappreciated and nutritous vegetable.  Good source of Vit. A and
 > an excellent source of Vit. C.

Agreed!  We got a whole Twelfth Night to eat up all their turnips and
very little of it came back, by peeling the turnips THICKLY to remove
the bitter outer layer and boiling the fine diced 'neeps in broth rather
than mere water.  That's from Platina I think, without having my books
handy.  Maybe some meat'n'potatoes guys thought they were potatoes...
but who cares, they got scarfed either way!

Selene >>>

There is also a similar message in there from Kiri, but again, no  
recipe.

Stefan

PS: For those interested in armored turnips and variations, I did add  
this file recently:
armrd-turnps-msg  (28K) 11/23/07    The medieval and SCA dish,  
armored turnips.
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