[Tom Hill]

Here in Cornwall home made pasties are a "must". Ingredients: Beef skirt, potatoes, onion, & turnip ( What the English call Swede) and seasoning.  My question is: what is the best variety of Swede for a pasty.  I used Tweed (or mbh did) and it lacked proper flavour.

[GrannieAnnie]

I try not to make much pastry stuff, watching my weight at the moment, so bit off topic, but if you call swedes turnips, what do you call turnips?      swedes are yellow and turnips are white.

[Tom Hill]

Turnips & White Turnip

[GrannieAnnie]

Turnips & White Turnip

Thanks Tom!  That's a new one on me.  We live and learn don't we?  I'm afraid when I've made pasties they weren't Cornish, but had minced beef, onion and a macedoine of vegetables in them!  Still nice though!

[Tom Hill]

We also call cauliflower brocolli down here.

[Swing Swang]

Turnips & White Turnip

Yes, when I lived in Glasgow this confused me too as the same distinction was made. If we realise that Swede is shorthand for Swedish turnip then things seem a little less strange.

[GrannieAnnie]

We also call cauliflower brocolli down here.

So then do you call brocolli green cauliflower?  And what about Romanescu?  that is a green cauliflower! LOL

Swing Swang, I didn't realise that abbreviation!  Explains a lot! 

[mumofstig]

That is strange, because Broccoli is the odd man out from the cauliflowers (yellow, orange and purple as well as the pale green Romanesco)
Broccoli is a different cultivar altogether 

[chrissie B]

I would just say the one with flavour is yellow the one without is white, although used to get a white turnip in greece was quite nice.
chrissie b

[Tom Hill]

My question is: what is the best variety of Swede for a pasty.  I used Tweed (or mbh did) and it lacked proper flavour.

[mumofstig]

TBH they all taste the same to me...

[Yorkie]

TBH they all taste the same to me...

Me too.

(Watery )

[Swing Swang]

Just to sabotage and hijack this thread with a bit of cornish pasty humour (sung by Cornishman Jon Cleave from the group Fisherman's Friends):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGd4cYjbSo8

[jezza]

hi a turnips leaves grow out of the top a swede  has a short stem then the leaves  jezza

[hamstergbert]

The HGB method:

1.  Don ear defenders.
2.  Heat oven to 180 / 160 fan
3.  Open Ginsters packet.
4.  Place contents on baking tray.
5.  Insert loaded tray into oven.
Laters....
6.  Take out and eat.

The ear defenders in step one are to attenuate any complaints from Cornish natives about "Ginsters? -them aint real parsties, they'm McParsties, more loike" and "not real Cornish neither, them" and "moi old mum usedter make proper Cornish parsties..." etc etc etc.