German Mode of Cooking Turnips

Ingredients

• 8 large turnips
• 3 oz butter
• pepper and salt to taste
• rather more than 1/2 pint of weak stock or broth
• 1 tablespoonful flour

Instructions

1. Make the butter hot in a stewpan, lay in the turnips, after having pared and cut them into dice, and season them with pepper and salt.
2. Toss them over the fire for a few minutes, then add the broth, and simmer the whole gently till the turnips are tender.
3. Brown the above proportion of flour with a little butter;
4. add this to the turnips, let them simmer another 5 minutes, and serve.
5. Boiled mutton is usually sent to table with this vegetable, and may be cooked with the turnips by placing it in the midst of them: the meat would then be very delicious, as, there being so little liquid with the turnips, it would almost be steamed, and consequently very tender.