Unchained Preppers
General Category => Sustenance => Topic started by: JoJo on December 13, 2015, 08:14:40 PM
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I've read quite a few posts on many fourms about survival food storage and I noticed certain foods not mentioned. I'm talking about food that will winter over like Turnips. Here's what Wkipedia says.
In the United States, stewed turnips are eaten as a root vegetable in the autumn and winter. The greens of the turnip are harvested and eaten all year. Turnip greens may be cooked with a ham hock or piece of fat pork meat, the juice produced in the stewing process prized as pot liquor. Stewed turnip greens are often eaten with vinegar.
Parsnips is another one that can stay in the ground and get better after a frost. There's also leafy vegetables that have a late fall or winter harvest. Canning isn't the only way to have winter food, not knocking canning just putting foward other foods for winter.
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Hmm interesting.
I guess when very hungry such weird veggies will become attarctive.,..
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip_Winter
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We grew turnips this past growing season. Many people do not like turnips but I love them. Easy to grow and store.
We had two plantings/harvests of turnips. The first harvest we used instead of radishes in salads. The second harvest we just finished this past weekend.
Rather than harvest them and put them in the root cellar I left them in the ground covered with a thin layer of fallen leaves. The fall frosts didn't seem to hurt them a bit but seemed to make them sweeter.
I always use a pressure cooker to cook them. Three minutes at 15 lbs of pressure. Always make extra so I can mix them in with mashed potatoes and make patties with this mixture. Bread the patties with corn meal or bread crumbs and slowly fry/saute them in olive oil. My grandmother who married a first generation American German and was of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage herself, use to fry them in clarified butter. Yummm!
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We grew turnips this past growing season. Many people do not like turnips but I love them. Easy to grow and store.
We had two plantings/harvests of turnips. The first harvest we used instead of radishes in salads. The second harvest we just finished this past weekend.
Rather than harvest them and put them in the root cellar I left them in the ground covered with a thin layer of fallen leaves. The fall frosts didn't seem to hurt them a bit but seemed to make them sweeter.
I always use a pressure cooker to cook them. Three minutes at 15 lbs of pressure. Always make extra so I can mix them in with mashed potatoes and make patties with this mixture. Bread the patties with corn meal or bread crumbs and slowly fry/saute them in olive oil. My grandmother who married a first generation American German and was of Pennsylvania Dutch heritage herself, use to fry them in clarified butter. Yummm!
I've only had them mashed and I liked them. Our daughter inlaw brings them for holiday dinners. Problem is my wife hates them so I can't try any other way that they are cooked.
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JoJo, send to me the turnips your wife doesn't want ;)
Many people do not like turnips because they tend to smell...well like turnips. ;D
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My mother use to peel, cut then into chunks and boil them. That is the only other way I've had them. I have a tendency to like strong flavored foods and hate suger in or on food.
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We eat them raw with salt or boiled, then mashed, a la potato pancake.
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Many people do not like turnips because they tend to smell...well like turnips. ;D
What else should they smell like? Chicken?
Nemo