swede yellow?

Wig

I tried cooking turnip/swede before, boiling but it didn't turn yellow

It turns yellow when my mum does it?

I'm doing it again now and it's not going yellow.

Is it because I'm not adding salt? Should I add salt as if I were cooking potatoes.

rosieben

I remember having confusing conversations about swede/turnip with a friend of mine who came from Aberdeen - what I called a swede, she called a turnip

are you cooking a big orange thing which is a swede? or small round things (think tangerine size) which are turnips?

swede is orange/yellow and stays so when cooked; turnips are white flesh, and I've never known them go yellow when boiled, always stayed white for me.

macma

Turnips and swede are different,turnips are smaller and generally pale/white ,swede are larger tougher and orange.I hail from Yorks where swedes were called turnips????Try swede with carrot boiled together and mashed yum.We grow lots of root veg (on our allotment )and I boil swede,carrot,parsnip and celeriac yum yum!

Wig

It's one of these Question is, is it supposed to go yellow when cooking, how come my mums always does?

Wig

Well it's cooked now, and was nice enough, not as yellow as I would like, hardly yellow at all actually. Maybe I'll just cheat nexttime and add turmeric.

macma

yep that's a swede.how lomg did you boil it ?

Penelope_Penguin

Wig wrote: »

That's a swede whatever the scots call it, it's still a swede How yellow it is depends on variety

Penny. x

heavenleigh

Penelope_Penguin wrote: »

That's a swede whatever the scots call it, it's still a swede How yellow it is depends on variety

Penny. x

Us Scots call it a neep

Penelope_Penguin

heavenleigh wrote: »

Us Scots call it a neep

:T :rotfl: I'll happily call it a neep it just ain't a turnip

THIRZAH

Does your Mum cook just swede or does she mix it with carrot-a lot of people do and that makes the mixture a deeper yellow?

psso

Wig wrote: »

I tried cooking turnip/swede before, boiling but it didn't turn yellow

It turns yellow when my mum does it?

Swede will go darker yellow/orange the longer you boil it - although I do it in the pressure cooker so it doesn`t take so long .