Turnips and Swede

Oh God. tell me they don' t come alive when they thaw out!

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.

Whatever floats your ship jeni

Good video of bloodworms on utube

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

What about mangel wurzels .....

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

Stump recipe

kindle fire. emoticon as before. plus grin

On Fire!

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

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

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

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!

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.

The us muffins are different again

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.

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

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.

Swedish turnip also known as rutabaga.

There! You cannot go wrong now!