Turnips
Origin: Tidewater Virginia
Source: Mary Randolph, 1824
Ingredients
- turnips
Instructions
- Peel off half an inch of the stringy outside.
- Full grown turnips will take about an hour and a half gentle boiling. Try them with a fork.
- When tender, take them up and lay them on a sieve till the water is thoroughly drained from them.
- Send them up whole.
- To very young turnips, leave about two inches of green top.
- The old ones are better when the water is changed as directed for cabbage.