Besides in soup, how did your parents prepare turnips?

My mom and dad loved turnip greens and turnip roots. She cooked the turnip greens with ham in a pot of boiling water until they were tender. She saved the broth for corn bread dumplings. With the turnip roots, she cut them up like potatoes and fried them in meat grease, served with fried chicken or fried pork chops and biscuits, rice and gravy. yum Poppy

My mom would cut turnips into cubes, simmer until tender, then mixed with some butter, alittle salt and ground black pepper. Turnips are ok, but I just use one or two per year and include them in other foods, mashed with potatoes, or one chopped up with a stew. The bitterness in the flavor doesn't make them one of my favorite vegetables, but they are nutritious.

One of my grandpas would eat raw turnips. He'd chomp it up like a great big carrot. My mother peeled and cooked the turnips then mashed them with some butter, salt and pepper.

Mom boiled them, covered in salted water until tender, pour off half of the water, add a pinch or two of sugar, use butter, pepper and any additional salt to taste, and the biggest key that makes them so good, add a heaping tablespoon of fried bacon grease. Mom always kept fried meat grease in a container in the freezer for seasoning food as this.

I never ate turnips as a child. My mother never cooked them. But as an adult I tried rutabagas, which are a variety of turnip (I think) and mash them up with potatoes. Very, very tasty.

Sometimes raw. Had an aunt that made them like mashed potatoes and I thought what a waste and disappointment when you could have had the mashed potatoes which are soooo much better. Had nips and tatties when I went to Scotland and liked them and haggis, too. I was sober and still liked them.

Just cut up and boiled with a little salt. Cut up and boiled along with the greens and then eaten with some great cornbread. The juice is always called pot liquor and adds to a great meal. You can even add a strip of smoked bacon if you like.

My favorite vegetable dish is:

Sliced carrots.

Sliced parsnips.

Sliced celery.

onion optional.

Pinch of salt..

Stir in a little butter or margarine before serving. Parsley too.

Cooked in a pressure cooker. Best.

Or simmered with lid cover, until tender. Not too much water.

My Danish mother-in-law introduced this recipe to me over 50 years ago.

It is best in the pressure cooker - (traps the flavor)

Try it you'll like it.

DeeJay.

We eat turnips that have been diced boiled and mashed with butter and lots of pepper. We also have them diced and added to a beef stew.

Raw a delightful treat. Diced and cooked with the greens. Mashed with butter salt and pepper.