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Vegetable Marrow for American Tables

A boiled vegetable marrow seasoned with coarse sea salt and optionally served with butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Vegetable Marrow for American Tables

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the vegetable marrow.

  2. Cut it in half and remove the seeds.

  3. Cut it into chunks.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the chunks in water.

  2. Season with a little coarse sea salt.

  3. Serve with butter if desired.

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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What each ingredient does

Vegetable marrow
Forms the main body of the dish, softening as it boils into a tender vegetable.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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