BS: Best way to butter parsnips

Subject: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: GUEST,Dr. Strabismus
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:12 AM

Cushion. Pillow. Duvet. Cotton wool. Mud. Candy floss. Margarine.

Or is this the worst way?

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:15 AM

Ach Herr Doktor Strabismus whom God preserve; how is Utrecht these days?
Is it true things in your life have gone a bit squint?
Gruss Gott.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:23 AM

I first cook them, and then lovingly spread each one with butter I have churned from cream I have myself milked from cows I alone have taken care of.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: GUEST,LilyFestre
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:48 AM

Gruss Gott!
Parsnips? YUM! Peel them like a carrot, cut them up, boil, drain, add butter and salt. YUM YUM!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:54 AM

But you can't use fine words.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: GUEST,Ms Penelope Rutledge
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:54 AM

First, clear an appropriate working area on a clean kitchen counter. Select a good cutting board and a sharp paring knife. Chop the parsnips up into bite-sized pieces, humming a merry tune whilst you do so. Once the parsnips are all sliced up, boil them until they are tender. Drain them. Then take a good quality sterling silver butter knife and some room temperature butter, preferably from free range cows that have been raised by someone who loves animals and cares about their quality of life...that's vital, in my opinion. Where were we? Ah, the parsnips! And butter the parsnips liberally and briskly, humming a merry tune as before. Deliver them hot and succulent to the dinner table and serve them up with gusto.

* PR

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: number 6
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:58 AM

PR .... I think I would use a 8 inch chef's knife rather than a paring knife in the chopping of the parsnip.

Try it next time. You will find it is much easier and does the job accurately and quicker.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: JennyO
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 12:00 PM

What if you don't have any gusto? Will pesto do? Or Bisto?

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: GUEST,Ms Penelope Rutledge
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 12:05 PM

I have consulted the kitchen staff, biLL, and they concur with your opinion about the 8 inch chef's knife. You're quite right, and I should have thought of that. I suppose if I were cooking for large numbers of people on a regular basis this sort of thing would be quite important to get right.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 12:08 PM

I have always found that it is better to cut the butter up into small knobs or large knobs first and then when the parsnips are cooked (I prefer roasted parsnips), drop your knob on top of the parsnip(s) (being careful not to burn your knob as it will ruin the taste)

Hope that helps


How is Utrecht (will be there next August)

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: GUEST,Puzzled of Littlehampton
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 12:12 PM

Where do you find the 8" chef?

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: GUEST,Ms Penelope Rutledge
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 01:55 PM

Ha! Ha! Oh my, that is droll. My advice, Littehampton, is to go for the French or Italian chefs if you must stoop to consorting with the kitchen help. The British ones are deadly boring and they will insist on regaling you with tales of their prowess on the rugby field, back when they were young and reckless lads. All outrageous lies of course.

* PR

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: MMario
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 01:58 PM

except from the female chefs. their rugby stories are usually true.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 02:10 PM

No offense, Villan, but I'm not dropping my knob onto hot parsnips.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: Rasener
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 02:39 PM

ROTFLMAO

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 02:42 PM

They are a root vegetable after all!
G.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 07:24 PM

so I see

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 09:59 PM

How to get a good, nutritious meal out of parsnips:   

Parsnips should be cooked out of doors, either while camping, or at the very least, in your back yard. Pitch a tent wherever you plan on cooking the parsnips and equip it with a sleeping bag. Cooking parsnips can be a lengthy process.

Dig a pit and line it with rocks. Build a fire in the pit and keep feeding it until the rocks become very hot. This may take several hours.   While the rocks are heating, make a clay paste and coat each individual parsnip thoroughly with clay, covering it all over with at least a quarter of an inch of clay. When sufficient time has passed for the rocks to become very hot, scrape the fire out of the pit, but keep the embers close by. Place the clay-coated parsnips on the hot rocks in the bottom of the pit, laying several parallel to each other. Then lay several more on top of those, at right angles. Then add more, paralleling the bottom layer, and so on, until you have placed all the parsnips in the pit. Then scrape the embers back into the pit, around the parsnips, and build up the fire on top again.

Now, it will take a while to cook them properly, so you may as well do all this toward evening, then crawl into your tent and prepare for sleep. Best to have an alarm clock with you, so you can get up every two hours or so and add more wood to the fire.

In the morning, the parsnips should be ready. Crawl out of you tent. Scrape the fire off the pit. Dig up the parsnips. Of course, by now, the clay has become quite hard. The first think you need to do is break the stack of parsnips apart, since much of the clay will have adhered and the parsnips may come out of the pit in a single stack Once you have managed to pry them apart, whack each parsnip on a rock and break the clay covering, removing it, and lay the parsnip aside as you remove the clay from the other parsnips.

When you have all the parsnips removed from the clay, throw the clay away. Throw the parsnips away. Eat your tent.

Since I have used no butter at all, one need have no worries about cholesterol.

Don Firth

P. S. This recipe also works well with fish duck. You don't even have to pluck the feathers from the duck, because they'll come off when you remove the clay.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: GUEST,Three-Fingered Louis
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 10:05 PM

Be careful with the knife.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: Rabbi-Sol
Date: 02 Jan 07 - 11:35 PM

I use parsnips as soup greens to make Chicken soup. Once the soup is completely cooked the parsnips are thrown out in the trash along with the other soup greens (celery, parsley roots, & dill), before the soup is served. And since I am kosher, parsnips that have come in contact with chicken can not be eaten with butter or any other dairy product.
                                          SOL ZELLER

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: Gurney
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 12:08 AM

Don Firth, that's the old gypsy way of cooking hedgehogs.

I think I'd rather eat a hedgehog than a parsnip.

My wife disguises them in hash browns and thinks I won't be able to tell, but I can.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: Peace
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 12:10 AM

Try them mixed with turnip and carrots, mashed.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: GUEST,I.B. from Zummerzet
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 03:36 AM

Give I boiled paaarsnips
And a gurt dish of tateys
And a lump of fatty bacon
And a pint of good ale!

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: GUEST, Topsie
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 05:49 AM

I used to wonder why some shop-bought apple pies are labelled 'Made with real apple'. Then I heard somewhere that unscrupulous pie manufacturers ('manufacturers' as we are talking commercial operations here) have added parsnip to apple pie when not enough cheap apples were available.

Subject: RE: BS: Best way to butter parsnips
From: Cats
Date: 03 Jan 07 - 12:57 PM

If your parsnips are more than 'baby parsnips' it is a good idea to take the woody middle out first, before you cook them. This cuts down on the cooking time and gives you a light and delicate parsnipy taste rather than a woody one, which is better for buttered parsnips. Cut them lenghtwise in quarters than just cut the woody section down wards as well at a right angle and it just peels away. You can use the middle bit for soups and stocks - don't waste it. However you do it, make sure you have a very sharp knife, it's easier and you are less likely to cut yourself.