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To Boil Parsnips

Parsnips boiled in salted water until tender.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scrape the parsnips and soak them in cold, salted water for 20 minutes.

  2. If the parsnips are old, peel them carefully and split them lengthwise.

Boil and serve

  1. For young parsnips, boil in salted water for 30 to 45 minutes; for old parsnips, boil for over 1 hour and 15 minutes.

  2. When tender, drain and serve.

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

Parsnips
Provide the main body and sweet, starchy flavour of the dish.

“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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