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from Stuart Baldwin contains these words:

Easier than boiling it and trying to scrape the skin off with either a
knife or a vegetable brush. In my original post I wrote that I had
grown some salsify on my allotment and boiled it in its skin for about
25 minutes, but then found that I didn't have time to prepare it for
Christmas dinner because it was so fiddly scraping the skin off.

Never tried this with salsify, but I cook jerusalem artichokes in their
skins, cut them in half and scoop out the flesh using a teaspoon.

You might be able to do that with salsify.

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