Middle-Class Crisis #37 - Turnip Recipes

[theclaud]

I've never been so insulted...

The night is young...

 

[Gravity Aided]

I may have to get some root crops started this week, at least indoors, come to mention..

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

The root crops that my Scottish wife calls turnips or neeps and cooks with haggis are called suedes where I come from (Birmingham). All very confusing.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Ditch that rubbish you middleclass Guardian reading trustafarian ( looks over shoulder )

Fennel is the way forward.

I am currently sweating fennel, potato, onion, garlic and celery for soup a la HFW

Have you tried roasted fennel with white chocolate? To die for...

 

[vernon]

You seem like a nice guy, but we're going to fall out. N England; the big ones are turnips, the small ones are swedes. I'm OK on the parsnips definition though

The geographically determined definitions of turnips and swedes led to my only home brewing disaster. I used a turnip wine recipe with swedes and the sulphurous, bad eggy scented fermented liquid was a gag inducing undrinkable toxic potion. How was I to know that the things that I used for turnip lanterns at halloween up in the North East were swedes and not turnips?

 

[Archie_tect]

Different names for the same things and the same names for different things...
"I say potato and you say potato, I say turnip and you say swede- let's call the whole thing off."

 

[oldfatfool]

Are you mad man, DRINK

 

[vernon]

Are you mad man, DRINK

I think that you have missed the point. No matter how many turnip wine recipes that you could have pointed me to at the time of making the original wine I would have used swedes because I was raised in a part of the UK that called swedes turnips.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The geographically determined definitions of turnips and swedes led to my only home brewing disaster. I used a turnip wine recipe with swedes and the sulphurous, bad eggy scented fermented liquid was a gag inducing undrinkable toxic potion. How was I to know that the things that I used for turnip lanterns at halloween up in the North East were swedes and not turnips?

Turnip lanterns, by eck I didn't know it was that grim up t' north.

 

[vernon]

Turnip lanterns, by eck I didn't know it was that grim up t' north.

Aye, it's nearly warm enough to consider using the freezer instead of leaving the frozen food outside by the back doorstep.

 

[Archie_tect]

If you can find them under the snow.

 

[nickyboy]

I think that you have missed the point. No matter how many turnip wine recipes that you could have pointed me to at the time of making the original wine I would have used swedes because I was raised in a part of the UK that called swedes turnips.

Don't admit you're wrong Vern. We're right, it's everyone else that's wrong. I'm going to Tesco this morning to swap the turnip and swede labels over. Today is the first day of the Root Vegetable Revoution

 

[rich p]

I've got a Swiss/German recipe for mangelwurzels if anyone would care for it

 

[rich p]

I've just realised that 'neeps' derives from 'turneeps' .

Has anyone else known of the old country habit of referring to one's head as a swede (as in, 'it fell off the shelf and hit him on the swede')? Or maybe I just dreamt that one.

I fink it's a Lunnon fing, calling a nut or a bonce, a swede.

 

[rich p]

Oh right. Any idea why? What about 'boko'?

No, I can't think of a cockerknee rhyme. Just a visual representation I suppose.