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To Boil Turnips

Boiled turnips seasoned with salt.

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

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

  2. Place the turnips in boiling water that is slightly salted.

  3. Cover the pot closely to keep out smoke and dust until the turnips are tender.

  4. Boil small, young turnips for 15 to 20 minutes; full-grown turnips for 45 minutes to 1 hour or more.

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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What each ingredient does

Turnips
Form the dish itself; cooking softens their fibrous flesh until tender.

“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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