Recipes
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society Turnip Soup Recipe
Food was scarce due the famine in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and so one of the meetings simply had turnip soup with no meat or bone in and nothing to go with it either. The meals then were made using available ingredients the result of which was a potato peel pie!
Prep Time | 10 mins |
Cook Time | 30 mins |
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Ingredients
- 3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 finely diced onion
- 2 peeled and diced turnips
- 1 potato peeled and diced
- 2 1/2 cups vegetable stock
- 1 cup Water
- 1 pinch dried rosemary
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- sea salt to taste
- white pepper to taste
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Instructions
- Heat the oil and saute the onions in it.
- Once the onions are translucent, add the turnips and cook for 3-4 minutes.
- Now add the potato, rosemary, stock and water.
- Bring the soup to a boil and then lower the flame and let it simmer.
- Once the vegetables are cooked, let the soup cool down and then blend it.
- Put the soup back on the flame and season it with sea salt, pepper and nutmeg and serve warm.