Turnip Cake

Rape Armate

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8

    as an accompaniment
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Great Cooks and Their Recipes

By Anne Willan

Published 1977

  • About

Martino’s custom of making a special dish of an ordinary vegetable like turnips was typically Italian; elsewhere in Europe cooks regarded most root vegetables as food for the poor. This particular dish, to be served at the end of a meal, obviously forms what we call a dessert. The combination of sugar with turnips is not as strange as it seems, for the vegetable is already slightly sweet.

Cook the turnips in the hot cinders or boil them whole and uncut, and slice them as thickly as