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
