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Sliced Boiled Beets, with Salt and Butter

Sliced boiled beets served warm with coarse sea salt and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Sliced Boiled Beets, with Salt and Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the beets until tender.

  2. Peel and slice the beets.

  3. Serve warm with a sprinkle of coarse sea salt and a pat of butter.

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

Beets
Main vegetable; cooking until tender softens the dense flesh and develops their sweet, earthy flavour.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth fat coating that carries flavour across the warm slices.

“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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