Name: Rapes in Potage
Ingredients: 2 lb Turnip, white; peeled & chunked; 2 c Meat broth; 2 Onion; minced; 1/2 ts Salt; 1 pn Saffron; opt; 1/8 ts Cardamom; opt; 1/8 ts Coriander; opt; 1 ts Sugar; opt; -- The Forme of Cury; in Pleyn Delit; by Hieatt & Butler

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John Stott

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Meats	Medieval	Vegetables, Medieval	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	lb	Turnip, white; peeled & chunked
2	c	Meat broth
2		Onion; minced
1/2	ts	Salt
1	pn	Saffron; opt
1/8	ts	Cardamom; opt
1/8	ts	Coriander; opt
1	ts	Sugar; opt
		— The Forme of Cury
		in Pleyn Delit
		by Hieatt & Butler

INSTRUCTIONS

Parboil turnips in a pot of boiling, salted water for about five minutes;
then drain, and put in a pan with onions, broth and seasonings, and simmer
until tender (ten to thirty minutes, depending on the age and size of the
turnips).
Take rapus and make hem clene and waissh hem clene; quare hem; parboile
hem; take hem up, caste hem in a gode broth and seeth hem. Mynce Oynons and
caste ther-to Safron and Salt and messe it forth with powdor douce. In the
wise make of Pasturnakes and skyrwates.
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