White turnip soup
From putercop 16 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 6
An unusual but tasty way to get anyone to eat turnips and a great way to get rid of stale bread. For those that want to cheat croutons can be subbed. This is a recipe from colonial times and is quite good. Addition of a good smoked bacon or smoke flavoring is an interesting spinoff.
Ingredients
- 4 medium sized white turnips shopping list
- 1 large onion shopping list
- 3 tbl butter shopping list
- salt and pepper to taste shopping list
- 3 slices dry bread or 2 cups of flavored or plain croutons (for those that want the easy way out) shopping list
- 2 egg yolks shopping list
- 1/2 cup cream shopping list
- parsley shopping list
How to make it
- peel, slice and coarsely chop the turnips and onions
- cook slowly in butter for 5 minutes
- add 6 cups of boiling water (dechlorinate city water by letting stand overnight uncapped), and bread or croutons
- simmer the soup for 30 minutes
- remove from the heat
- puree the soup
- add salt and pepper to taste
- return to the heat and add egg yolks beaten well with the cream and stir blending well
- garnish with fine minced parsley
- serve with crusty bread
- Any root vegetable will work here as well as acorn squash, pumpkin etc.
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