White Turnips à la Crème

Ingredients

• 8 medium-sized white turnips
• 1 teaspoonful sugar
• 1 teaspoonful salt
• 1 ounce butter
• 1 teaspoonful flour
• 1 3/4 cupful hot milk
• 1/2 teaspoonful white pepper
• 1 tablespoonful chopped parsley

Method

1. 1

   Pare and wash turnips, cut into thick slices, then into strips.

2. 2

   Place in a saucepan, cover with boiling water, add sugar, and boil till tender.

3. 3

   Add salt, drain.

4. 4

   Melt butter, add flour, stir, and cook; add hot milk, cook for 3 minutes; add turnips, cook and stir lightly, taste, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 330. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 teaspoonful flour, add it to the vegetables, cook a few minutes ; add 1 gill of cream, or a little unsweetened condensed milk, and 1 tablespoonf ul fine-chopped parsley ; if neces- sary, add more salt, and serve. Creamed White Tnrnips. — Peel and cut into slices 6 me- dium-sized white turnips, cut each into 2, lay 3 slices over one another, and cut into strips. Place the turnips in a saucepan, cover with boiling water ; add 1 teaspoonful sugar, and boil till tender ; then add Y^ teaspoonful salt Ten minutes before serving set a small saucepan with 1 teaspoonful fiour and Vg tablespoonful butter over the fire, stir, and cook 2 minutes ; add 1 cupful boiling milk, cook 3 minutes ; season with y^ even teaspoonful salt, a little white pepper, and 1 tablespoonful fine-chopped parsley, drain the turnips in a colander ; pour into a hot dish and the sauce over them. White Turnips & la Cr6me. — Pare and wash 8 medium- sized white turnips, cut into thick slices, the slices into strips, then measure (there should be 1 quart) ; place them into a saucepan, cover with boiling water, add 1 teaspoonful sugar, and boil till ten- der ; then add 1 teaspoonful salt, cook a few minutes longer ; drain in a colander. Melt 1 ounce butter in a saucepan, add 1 tea- spoonful of flour, stir, and cook a few minutes, add 17^ cupful hot milk, cook 3 minutes ; add the turnips, cook and stir lightly a few minutes over the fire ; taste ; if necessary, add more salt ; then add Vi teaspoonful white pepper and 1 tablespoonful chopped pars- le

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