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To Boil Cauliflowers

A boiled cauliflower dish seasoned with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Boil Cauliflowers

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the cauliflowers in plenty of salt and water, with the flower downwards.

Cook and serve

  1. Cook in plenty of boiling water seasoned with salt, placing the flower side down in the saucepan, uncovered while cooking.

  2. Remove with a slotted spoon and strain in a colander.

  3. Carefully transfer to a vegetable dish and serve with or without sauce.

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

Cauliflowers
Form the main body of the dish, becoming tender when boiled through.
Coarse sea salt
Seasons the cauliflower in the soak and in the cooking water.

“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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