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To Boil Vegetables

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Boil Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean vegetables thoroughly before cooking.

  2. Use outside leaves in stock pot.

  3. Plunge fresh vegetables into boiling salted water.

  4. For dried vegetables, soak in lukewarm water.

  5. Add a piece of sugar to the boiling water for green vegetables.

  6. Do not let vegetables sit in the boiling water; drain them immediately.

  7. Cook green vegetables for about 20 minutes; young peas may take 10 minutes, while cabbages can take nearly an hour.

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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