Turnips into Mashed Potatoes - Turnip Bread???

September 16, 2004

I do mashed turnip almost every day as it is a favourite of my daughter. I

peel them and cube them and cook them in a small amount of water in the

microwave. I find it best to 'mash' them with a hand held blender as it is

better than a normal 'masher'. I add double cream (47 % fat) and

oil. Sometimes we use meat with it or cooked white fish also mashed in. I

then put them into individual containers and freeze. These are handy to

take when eating out in restaurants as a family. We have, as a special

treat, made chips (french fries) with turnip chopped into shape and partly

cooked before being fried. However with this there is always too much oil

and so I have to weigh what is left after cooking and weigh out an equal

amount of fresh oil which has to be drunk as I have not found any other way

to 'hide' it. Needless to say for that reason this is not a meal we do on

a regular basis.

I have to point out that we can use turnip as a 'free food', which some

protocols don't allow. By trial and error we have worked out how much we

can use without disturbing the maintenance of ketosis.

I have been trying to find for some time a recipe for making turnip bread

which I could adapt as bread is the one thing that my daughter would love

to have and can't. Does anyone have any recipes for this? It was used

during the war so maybe someone's grandparents may remember it?

Thanks

Ginny

At 02:17 17-09-04, you wrote:

>When we were at Hopkins they told us that turnips worked well for making

> " mashed potatoes " . We bought some turnips today and I would like to know if

>anyone has done this and how they did it? Do we boil them just like

>potatoes?

>

>Mike Bartenhagen

> mike@...> mike@...

>

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