Gratin of Grated Turnips

Turnips are root vegetables, members of the cabbage family, and have been around in Europe for hundreds of years; they were probably spread northwards by the Romans. Their closest relative is the swede, which only came upon the vegetable scene in the seventeenth century, the name being a contraction of ‘Swedish turnip’. Before the potato was introduced, turnips were probably a staple carbohydrate food of the poor.

The turnips here are cooked using a concept vaguely like that of daup