Turnip Slaw
Serves:
Ingredients:
1/2
c
Mayonnaise
3
T
Sour cream
2
ts
Tarragon vinegar
1
ts
Prepared mustard
1
ts
Sugar
Dash of salt
1/4
ts
Celery seed
1/4
ts
Pepper
1
ts
Chopped fresh dill or 1/2
-teaspoon dried dill
1
lb
White turnip, peeled and
-shredded (4 cups)
Method:
In a large bowl, stir together the mayonaisse, sour cream, tarragon vinegar, mustard, sugar, salt, celery seed, pepper, dill, and turnip.
Mix well and refrigerate until needed.
NOTE: The turnip is a neglected root, a vegetable that is never discussed, and rarely seen in public.
Here it gets its proper due in a recipe that sets off the little bite in its flavor and the little crunch of its texture.
Use it wherever you would coleslaw.
1992 CUNNINGHAM, Marion The Supper Book Alfred A.
Knopf New York MM Format by John Hartman Hartsville, SC 4 April 1997 Cro-Magnon@juno.
com hartman@indy.
net