In Scotland, its easy to buy large turnips or swedes to make reasonable sized turnip lanterns roughly the size of a soccer ball.
However, here in France, turnips are very small - so it can take a lot of searching around the fruit and veg shops to get turnips [navet] that are large enough to carve and hold even a tea-light candle.
In fact, every year I choose the larger orange-sized turnips on offer [which are still tiny by Scottish standards] , the assistants point out that they not taste as nice as the sweet miniature ones which are about the size of a plum.
They still give off a pretty orange light -especially when grouped -and the smell of gently roasting turnip is one of my main memories of halloween.
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Beautiful orange glow in the second photograph.
Penny.
p.s.
have earrings arrived ok?
Oh wow, those are lovely - the colour of the light is quite exquisite.
They are fantastic...what a neat idea. I'll have to start looking at all vegetables with a different eye...could this be carved and illuminated?
Meilleurs vœux!
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