I've always referred to the small white turnips as "white turnips" as the purple-skinned turnips have yellow-coloured flesh.
Pale & tastelesssmall white turnips" are just turnips.
Mashed with lots of butter & black pepper! Yum!Swedes (our yellow fleshed vegetable)
Turnips on my grandparents farm were large tough yellow fleshed veg fed to livestock. Granny being a thrifty sort would pick out a few of the younger ones for the dinner table but they were sharp flavoured and required vast amounts of butter salt and pepper to make them palatable.
Like many vegetables the problem with white turnips is the disconnect between source and consumer. Pulled fresh from the garden when they are smaller than golf balls and eaten (roasted or steamed) within a few hours they are delicious. The Japanese do wonderful things with them. However allow them to grow larger than tennis balls and spend weeks in transit, storage and on supermarket shelves and they are as interesting as eating cardboard.Pale & tasteless
Nobody is going to open a turnip restaurant...
I suspect that these were mangles, the toughest of all vegetables. As a kid I used to have to feed these into a pulper, a machine with a handle on the outside, a feeder at the top, and a circular blade with notches cut in it. Turning the handle produced a stream of mangle slices into a container at the bottom for feeding to livestock.Turnips on my grandparents farm were large tough yellow fleshed veg fed to livestock. Granny being a thrifty sort would pick out a few of the younger ones for the dinner table but they were sharp flavoured and required vast amounts of butter salt and pepper to make them palatable.
I suspect that these were mangles, the toughest of all vegetables. As a kid I used to have to feed these into a pulper, a machine with a handle on the outside, a feeder at the top, and a circular blade with notches cut in it. Turning the handle produced a stream of mangle slices into a container at the bottom for feeding to livestock.
No, that’s Bangkok, not Tokyo.they are smaller than golf balls and eaten (roasted or steamed) within a few hours they are delicious. The Japanese do wonderful things with them.
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And what do the pigs think about that...I believe it was the late Paolo Tullio who expressed the difference between Irish and Italian thus,
Irish people grow turnips,dig them up, the leaves get cut off and thrown to the pigs, the turnips boiled and mashed with butter to make them somewhat palatable..
Italians grow turnips, dig them up, the turnips are thrown to the pigs and the leaves are sautéed with butter and garlic and they're delicious
Choice of language here...I believe it was the late Paolo Tullio who expressed the difference between Irish and Italian thus,
Irish people grow turnips,dig them up, the leaves get cut off and thrown to the pigs, the turnips boiled and mashed with butter to make them somewhat palatable..
Italians grow turnips, dig them up, the turnips are thrown to the pigs and the leaves are sautéed with butter and garlic and they're delicious
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