Tumshie

[StJon]

Found this today on our morning dog walk...



Donatella had been following the scent 'n' footprints of cinghiale (wild boar) and led me to a field that may have been farmed in the past...

 

[Toddy]

Good eating is tumshie

Boiled and mashed with loads of black pepper and butter melted through.

M

 

[Stevie777]

Tumshie... A good Scottish word right there. Haggis, Neeps/Tumshie and Tatties...Awesome.

 

[bushwacker bob]

We call them Swedes in England.

 

[Toddy]

I thought swedes were navets ? ….the wee white ones with purplely tops ?

M

 

[swotty]

I thought swedes were navets ? ….the wee white ones with purplely tops ?

M

Isn't that turnips?

 

[bushwacker bob]

Isn't that turnips?

Yep Swede has yellow flesh, not to be confused with Scandinavians also called 'swedes' but are much harder to mash.

 

[swotty]

not to be confused with Scandinavians also called 'swedes' but are much harder to mash.

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[Toddy]

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/jan/25/neeps-swede-or-turnip


M

 

[Bowlander]

No matter what you call the accompanying veg, these haggis are superb:

http://www.macsween.co.uk/

 

[redandshane]

Nice to see the perennial discussion between Scots and English about what a turnip is In Galloway we call the big ones turnips(neeps) and the smaller fellas white turnips. Both are very popular

 

[Tengu]

Mashed swede and carrot for me, if you please.

turnups are boring even though they look attractive in the supermarket

 

[Toddy]

If they're boring you're doing them wrong

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=25595

The thread's eight years old but the recipes are good

M

 

[Goatboy]

Tumshies, swedes, turnips or neeps I wasn't fond of them whatever the name as a wean but we didn't get to make a lantern at halloween if we didn't eat th scoopings. So eat them we did. Though I must say thT my mother used to boil the bejesus out of any veg 'till it was a sour pappy mash. Even when I bought her a steamer in the late 80's I went 'round the next week and sat down to a grey pulp of vegetable matter. I asked about the steamer and the reply was that the cooking times were too short and she still boiled the heck out of them 'till they just gave up.
If properly cooked tumshies and parsnips can be sweet chunks of lovelyness or make a mash only rivaled by mashed caulieflower or mashed butterbeans.

Sent via smokesignal from a woodland in Scotland.

 

[Stevie777]

Tumshies, swedes, turnips or neeps I wasn't fond of them whatever the name as a wean but we didn't get to make a lantern at halloween if we didn't eat th scoopings. So eat them we did. Though I must say thT my mother used to boil the bejesus out of any veg 'till it was a sour pappy mash. Even when I bought her a steamer in the late 80's I went 'round the next week and sat down to a grey pulp of vegetable matter. I asked about the steamer and the reply was that the cooking times were too short and she still boiled the heck out of them 'till they just gave up.
If properly cooked tumshies and parsnips can be sweet chunks of lovelyness or make a mash only rivaled by mashed caulieflower or mashed butterbeans.

Sent via smokesignal from a woodland in Scotland.

Your Mother and My Mother should get a cooking show together....Ever seen White Mince.

 

[Goatboy]

Your Mother and My Mother should get a cooking show together....Ever seen White Mince.

I have but thankfully she could do mince so that was round at a friends.

 

[grimpeur]

Tumshie... A good Scottish word right there. Haggis, Neeps/Tumshie and Tatties...Awesome.

Hehe!

Tumshie piece.

(Mashed neep on a roll with brown sauce)

No bad!

Andy.

 

[DurhamBushcrafter]

not to be confused with Scandinavians also called 'swedes' but are much harder to mash.

Oh that is a classic!