Turnip/Swede?

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

There will be a turnip for the books here!

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Good point Lillian, it looks more like a swede

bubblegumcola

Artytarty wrote: »

I call it the other way round!

Me too. The top one I would call a turnip and yeah I call it a 'neep' too as I am Scottish. I only use 'neeps' to have in stews or with haggis and tatties. In the 70s my mum carved out turnips for Halloween, must have taken her hours compared to a pumpkin we all get these days.

scottishminnie

I've always known swedes to be really pale, almost white whilst turnips were red or green (and known as neeps).

I used up a huge one (neep) earlier today - cut into chunks and boiled along with diced carrots. Once boiled and drained, mashed with potato masher, add some butter (no lo fat spread nonsense) and some black pepper. Delicious - and it freezes well.

Best served with mashed potatoes and good old mince:D

sonastin

lilian1977 wrote: »

Is it definitely a turnip? I only ask because we've recently had an argument at work about what is a turnip and what is a swede!

In my opinion:

Swede:



Turnip:

This is how I was brought up too. I've never knowingly eaten the bottom one. My mother raised me to believe that the top one is virtually poisonous but then she thinks all veggies are a necessary evil to be suffered. We're in full-on parenting roll reversal now as I often serve diced (or even mashed) carrot and swede with Sunday dinner and she does her best to pick out the swede :rotfl:

I once had one of those pub-conversations about how odd it is that some call one swede and one turnip and others are adament that it is the other way round and it seems to depend where you grew up. A friend returned from the bar and asked about the topic of conversation. Her reply "but they are wrong. swede's are purple and turnips are white" - completely missed the point that they think she is equally wrong :rotfl:

Pink.

Where I live the top one is a turnip and the bottom ones swede. As others have said what you call them depends on where you live. There was much debate about it here

I use it in soups, stews, casseroles, mash it with carrots and butter and once had it roasted which was lovely

Pink

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Top one I would call a swede,yellowy /orange when peeld delicious mashed with carrot or Tatties
Bottom one turnip which my late Mum grew and I was never keen on.I used to sneak any I found in the garden out to the milkmans horse who was a bad tempered beast who would eye me with a cross-eyed sneer when I tried to 'treat ' him.but the nag would eat it never the less.Ten ungratfully try to bite the hand that fed him :):)I was glad when we had an electric milk float and he went off to be made into a pot of glue :) As a little girl I thought that every pot of Lion Glue was a bit of the grumpy horse and would whisper 'Serve you right' every time I did any scrapbooking :):)

cornishchick

In Cornwall my gran always called the top one turnip, love it mashed with lashing of butter. And cracked black pepper.
Also good in stews, soups and as an alternative to mashed spuds on top of cottage pie.

Gettin256

You might not have everything in but this is my favourite thing to do with turnip

cook bacon, brown some onions, add in carrot and turnip and pour in some chicken stock, let cook for 5 mins. add some mashed potato on top and grill....yum!

SmlSave

Thank you for all the ideas Going to attack it this weekend!