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Boiled Squash

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Boiled Squash

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare and cut into small cubes ; cover with boiling salted water, and boil till tender; drain, return to the saucepan and set on the back of the stove till dry. Then mash with a potato masher, season with salt, pepper and butter, and serve.

  2. VEGETABLES. 127

  3. SUCCOTASH.

  4. Boil separately corn on the col) and either string beans or Lima beans. Cut the corn from the coli and put in a hot saucepan with the beans, add plenty of butter and salt and pepper. Cook together about five minutes. Rich milk may be added, and where liked a little flour rubbed in butter for thickening; cook 5 min- utes longer. When served without milk sauce, boil a little milk with the corn on the cob. Make the proportion of corn and bean.s according to taste.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

6Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
2 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. See the original page.

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