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Epicurean Kentuckian: white Russian turnips Click on headline for story plus turnip pictures By Ed Waggener Dateline: 408 N. Public Square, Columbia, KY. 4pmCT, Thursday, October 20, 2010. - Solid White Turnip is a bit unusual for Adair County Gardens. According to the man who gave one (1) to me, the gardener who gave it to him said it was a Russian Turnip. His own stash was to be cooked He was planning to cook a fair sized plastic poke of them for supper. We tried them raw, sliced and sprinkled with some sea salt and sweet rice vinegar, and just a touch of red pepper to try to emulate the taste of the turnips people used to drive 50 miles or more to J.D. Harper's Circle R restaurant to have as the main course. From the first cut it was apparent that these turnips would have a fine, firm texture. No hint of pelf There was no hint of pelf. And yes, they did taste a lot like the old timey cooked turnips at the old Circle R. They were excellent. Now, time was when turnips couldn't be given away this time of the year. They still tell in Gradyville of the bumper crops the late Woodson Nell grew and how he had to leave bushels on the stoop and run to get rid of them. But today, if anyone has bought brought-on cello packs of 3-4 little turnips for $2-3, one realizes that times have changed. Raw turnips good hang-over food Turnips have another wonderful use, which a greater drinker from Russell County told me about. He said turnips in season or hill onions or radishes in season were the only way to sate one of those monumental 5-day drunk appetites. He said one Countian would go to the garden, pull. clean them with his pocket knife and eat turnip after turnip until the craving subsided. Alas, dear reader, I can't reveal the source of the test turnip, nor the name of the person who gave it to me. "Don't tell a soul," Murrell Burton warned me. "If you do I'll be in dutch with Pewee Sinclair," he said. "then he'll cut me off and neither one of us will get any more." So readers will just have to stay in the dark on that matter. -Ed This story was posted on 2010-10-20 20:42:37
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