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Last year, I carved a turnip for Halloween, to recreate the experience my Father had in England. fhaolan.deviantart.com/art/Nee… However, when I showed it to him he went "That's not a turnip." This set me back a bit, as it was very definitely a turnip. What I discovered is that in Northern England and Scotland, when they say 'turnip', they might mean a 'Swedish turnip' or what in America/Canada is called a rutabaga.

So, this time I did a rutabaga. Not much different from a turnip, really. It's a bit bigger, seems to have more surface texture, and is a touch softer I found. It's still awfully small and hard relative to pumpkins. I remember seeing rutabagas about 6" round in Ontario, but the biggest one we could find in the grocery store over here was about 4" round. This time I broke down and used a solid spoon to help hollow it out. I wanted to use a melon spoon, but that turned out to be too flimsy and just bent. If I do this again, I'm going to have to get a smaller knife as even a paring knife had too wide a blade to be particularly useful at this scale.

And just for reference; sometimes jicama is called 'turnip' too, in Malaysia. Maybe next year.
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