Swede Shoots

Miss Janet Esdaile writing from Fyfield, Milton-under-Wychwood Oxon., 1930, says:

‘The other day my landlady served me with a delicious vegetable. It looked like very young and tender asparagus in the dish, but peach colour instead of pale green, and it had rather a strong smell. I was quite at a loss to identify it by colour and smell except that it reminded me of walking past a root field. Its taste was not unlike parsnips but not nearly so sweet and it melted in