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Sweet Corn

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Sweet Corn

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the tender corn from the cob before cooking.

  2. Pack the corn tightly into glass cans using the small end of a potato masher.

  3. Seal the cans with rubber and screw on the covers almost tight.

  4. Place a cloth in the bottom of a wash boiler and lay the cans in, one over another.

  5. Cover the cans with cold water and bring to a boil.

  6. Boil for three hours.

  7. Remove the cans and screw the covers on tightly.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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