We always called them neeps when I were a lad.Turnips: how Britain fell out of love with the much-maligned vegetable
Thérèse Coffey’s recent suggestion that Brits eat turnips instead of tomatoes during food shortages was mocked – but the turnip hasn’t always been so unpopular, as a food historian explains.theconversation.com
Apparently the old English word for the turnip, (the big yellow thing) was a neep while the little one was a turnep.
Dont get on to Parsnips, I taught a group of french girl guides about foraging once. They loved ransoms but none of them had ever tasted or knew what a parsnip was
Make your own you lazy oik!Just been to the co op. Looked at soups and got a tin of "spicy parsnip" soup, don't know what that will be like. It claimed to be on a price reduction...some of the other ones were about two quid a tin! For soup!!
Just been to the co op. Looked at soups and got a tin of "spicy parsnip" soup, don't know what that will be like. It claimed to be on a price reduction...some of the other ones were about two quid a tin! For soup!!
To determine what’s a swede and what’s a turnip I would quite happily go by main seed supplier.
Heirloom Turnip varieties to buy in the UK from Real Seeds
Our selected Turnip seeds are easy to grow and really nice pulled young as sweet tender baby turnips. They also keep well overwinter.www.realseeds.co.uk
Interesting to see they have a combo of both!
I eat neither.
I do recall my m-in-law growing 60 swedes on a previous allotment we shared. No one in my family likes them and and only one in her house did. That’s a lot of swede for one person to get through!
I have a row, now half a row, of Golden Ball turnips from Kings Seeds after Marc recommended them, the turnips not the seed supplier. God alone knows what I’m going to do with them as the freezers are full and there’s only so much stew I can eat.
As Marc commented, they are nice roasted too, but again I have my limits and no-one else likes them unless they’re disguised.
I'd buy them from youI have a row, now half a row, of Golden Ball turnips from Kings Seeds after Marc recommended them, the turnips not the seed supplier. God alone knows what I’m going to do with them as the freezers are full and there’s only so much stew I can eat.
As Marc commented, they are nice roasted too, but again I have my limits and no-one else likes them unless they’re disguised.
I’ll take a look at them on Monday and get some pics. If you want some they’re yours and no nonsense about buying them either.I'd buy them from you
I'd buy them from you