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To Boil Turnips

Turnips boiled with salt until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Boil Turnips

To Boil Turnips

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Pare the stringy rind from the turnips and either split them once or leave them whole.

Boil

  1. Bring a pot of water to a boil and add a pinch of salt.

  2. Add the turnips to the boiling water and cover the pot tightly.

  3. Boil young turnips for 15 to 20 minutes, or full-grown turnips for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until tender.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Turnips
Provide the main vegetable, which softens to a tender texture as it boils.

The step that matters

Cover the pot tightly and boil until tender. A tight lid keeps the steam and heat in, so the water stays at a steady boil and the turnips cook through evenly. Checking tenderness matters because young and full-grown turnips need quite different times.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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