Rapes in potage

 
                              RAPES IN POTAGE
 
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 Serving Size  : 4    Preparation Time :0:00
 Categories    : Vegetables
 
   Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
 --------  ------------  --------------------------------
    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       t            Sugar -- opt
 
   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.
                                   -- The Forme of Cury
                                      in Pleyn Delit
                                      by Hieatt & Butler
  
 
 
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