Turnips and Swede

Swedish turnip = Brassica napobrassica – a cross between a turnip and a cabbage (according to Wiki!). Orangey flesh.

Turnip = Brassica rapa. White flesh.

Swedish turnip also known as rutabaga.

There! You cannot go wrong now!

I can't get the orange fleshed swede here, sadly. Steamed and then mashed with salt, pepper and lots of butter - v. yummy. I can get the little mauve/purple topped turnips though - they're just ......... ok.

Where else but Gransnet could you get such a diversity of rivetingly interesting information on swedes and turnips?

Complete change of subject I know but, coming from the Midlands as I do, I wonder why people here in the S. E. insist on calling pikelets muffins.

The us muffins are different again

First, define your pikelet, pet and then we'll know what we're talking about . In Lancs where I grew up pikelet and crumpet seemed to be interchangeable. And a muffin was different – no holes – but it definitely wasn't what are called muffins at coffee stops nowadays.

When I were a lass, a pikelet was like a flat crumpet, holey on top and a muffin was a puffy bread cake, like a balm cake but flatter!
we're never all going to agree on this one!

Pikelet is flat and heavy with holes to soak up the butter. They have to be toasted.

Now i wonder if I meant crumpet instead of muffin as the alternative. Yes I did. Brain not properly up and running yet

North East is straight forward crumpet and muffin no confusion, but we do have stottie cake

pub has started doing "stump". think it's northern fir mashed up veg. hmm emoticon which I can't do as am on Fire.

On Fire!

kindle fire. emoticon as before. plus grin

Never heard of 'stump' before, although I am from the north - here it is:

Stump recipe

I often mash cooked Swede (orange flesh) with cooked carrots - delicious with lots of black pepper.

What about mangel wurzels .....

Sound delicious! #hungry. My granny used to call the stalk bits of cabages and caulis, the 'stump". I thought that was what they meant, when I saw it on the menu!

Isn't mangel wurzel a lovely name? For a vegetable. <Ponders on the possibility of twins being called Mangel and Wurzel>

I agree bags especially pronounced with a strong West Country accent.

Saw a reference to a mumsnet thread on names generated by the contents of one's fridge! Must check it out sometime.

High time I went to check on Goosefat, Stilton and Bloodworm.

What's bloodworm? Some variety of leech? (I'm glad to see they're being used in medicine again)

Good video of bloodworms on utube

Whatever floats your ship jeni

The boodworms are for Mr P's tropical fish!

Now there's another silly thing, in the shop they are sold as "live" food, but are frozen.