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A Good Boiled Dinner

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A Good Boiled Dinner

Ingredients

Directions

  1. 4 hours before serving put meat in kettle of boiling water, enough to little more than cover; when it boils skim carefully; then let boil slowly. One hour before serving, add cabbage cut in quarters, turnips in slices, V-i hour later whole potatoes. If corned beef is used no salt will be required; if fresh meat is preferred salt when adding potatoes.

By Warren, Pa. Presbyterian church. Second auxiliary missionary society. [from old catalog]. 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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