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A swede is like a turnip. It is bigger and yellower. They are good in soup and stews. They are a root crop and grow in cold winters. I don't know what a rutabega is.

Rutabaga and swede are the same thing, yucky.

[janeg]

And in Scotland, turnip is swede! Wonderful champed(mashed) wi tatties and a bit of cyboes (Potatoes and spring onions/scallions) = clapshot.
oh, and here's me on a fast day (eyes up the freezer for haggis and clapshot)

So, swede is neeps? Didn't know that...

[janeg]

Aye, 'Tis that.

I live, I learn!

squash (when it is referred to as a drink--apparently a fruit flavored syrup)

That's quite a polite description. More of a brightly-coloured (or 'colored' take your pick) liquid that is supposed to taste of fruit but mostly tastes of sugar and chemicals. Beloved of children, unfortunately.

Now lime cordial I do like, but it still has the sugar

Squash is a concentrate used to make something similar to what we would call Kool Aid. Remember the drink concentrates from the Schwann's man? Basically the same thing. As for Coriander, in the states we call the seed Coriander but the leaves Cilantro but here in the UK it is all Coriander.

And we haven't even started on jelly and jam!

My copy of Hairy Dieters cookbook came today. I have just found out that cornflour in the cookbook is corn starch in my kitchen in Canada.
The spicy bean and vegetable stew needs cannellini beans, which will be white kidney beans at No Frills Grocery. Cans of beans come in fluid ounces or milliliters, not grams. I need 400 grams. I guess that one.
For Creme Fraiche, I will use Greek Style Yogurt, which is just a little topping for this recipe. I could probably find half-fat creme fraiche, but not easily in my town.
I am feeling so international.

OK, call me stupid but the reason why kidney beans are called "kidney" is their colour. Ain't it kinda weird to call a different kind of beans "white kidney beans"?
It's like calling white berries "white blackberries"...

Kidney beans are named after their shape. The white ones might have a different name, but I can't think of it now. I'll report back from the grocery store this afternoon, if I find them called something else. The red coloured black berries, I would call Saskatoon berries, but that is really Canadian. We don't have white berries of any kind here.

[Betsysgr8]

Kidney beans are named after their shape. The white ones might have a different name, but I can't think of it now. I'll report back from the grocery store this afternoon, if I find them called something else. The red coloured black berries, I would call Saskatoon berries, but that is really Canadian. We don't have white berries of any kind here.

Northern Great Beans

WOW! Here we use the name because of the colour, not the shape, LOL! I know because the white ones are named after the shape and we add the "kidney" to distinguish the colour.

Athens used to be full of trees with white berries. Not anymore though...

Wikipedia says they are related to kidney beans, so it isn't just a similar name because of a similar shape, they really are a white variety of kidney bean. Of course that means if you are cooking them, rather than buying them in a tin (American: can) cooking time has to include 10 mins actually boiling to break to the same toxins you get in kidney beans and apparently broad beans (I didn't know that).