To Mash Turnips
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- turnips
- butter
Instructions
- When they are boiled quite tender, squeeze them as dry as possible.
- Put them into a sauce pan, mash them with a wooden spoon, and rub them through a colander.
- Add a little bit of butter, and keep stirring them till the butter is melted and well mixed with them, and they are ready for table.