Rutabaga or turnip casserole

[Geraldine]

I was looking for rutabagas in Egypt in that other thread. Didn't find but used Egyptian turnip instead. I think not many would taste the difference with turnip casserole and rutabaga casserole, they're similar and both very delicious. Try this! This is traditional Finnish Christmas food. The Egyptians I served this to thought it was sooooo good and they didn't realize you can use turnip this way. I think they pretty much only use turnip in pickled vegetables.


Rutabaga (swede) or turnip casserole

~1,5 kg peeled rutabagas/turnips

2 dl (desilitres) cooking cream
1 dl breadcrumbs
1 egg
0,5 dl dark molasses
0,5 teaspoon ground ginger
0,5 teaspoon ground nutmeg
0,5 teaspoon ground white pepper
(a little bit butter)
salt to taste (1-2 teaspoon)

Cut rutabagas into small pieces and boil in water until they're soft. Mix cooking cream and breadcrumbs and leave it to soak for a while until breadcrumbs swell. Mash rutabagas/turnips with a blender. Add all the other ingredients.

Bake for 1,5 hours in oven (175 C).



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USA: 1 cup = 8 U.S. fl. oz = 2,37 dl
UK: 1 cup = 2,84 dl

[HEPZIBAH]

[face=Comic Sans MS]Sounds lovely, although a bit sweet.[/face]

[Geraldine]

In my opinion it is not that sweet, yes there's dark molasses but in 1,5 kg of rutabagas that's not much. You can also put less if you feel like it. I don't like so much sweet main courses such as sweet potato casserole, I always put more 'normal' potatoes into it too.

[SoCalledEgyptologist]

Geraldine, are you aware of any finnish-english cooking dictionaries either online or as books? I'm not much of a cook and I always get confused by the language. Explaining what something looks or tastes like is useless for me, I'm not a good cook!

For example I don't know what molasses are, nutmeg, or ginger )or at least I wouldn't know what they are in finnish! Ginger = inkivääri?)

[HEPZIBAH]

Geraldine, are you aware of any finnish-english cooking dictionaries either online or as books? I'm not much of a cook and I always get confused by the language. Explaining what something looks or tastes like is useless for me, I'm not a good cook!

For example I don't know what molasses are, nutmeg, or ginger )or at least I wouldn't know what they are in finnish! Ginger = inkivääri?)

[face=Comic Sans MS]Here you go SCE, I think this may help:[/face]

http://www.dlc.fi/~marianna/gourmet/i_spices.htm

[SoCalledEgyptologist]

Thanks Hepzibah! I'm so embarrased looking at Geraldine's Christmas dinner, all I managed was Christmas porridge, and I was really proud of how it turned out!!!!! (never cooked it before, my mum always made it at christmas)

[Geraldine]

Hepzi gave the link I use. I've bought also this book



I don't cook from it but it is good to have here when explaining Finnish food to an Egyptian or another foreigner.

I love cooking!