Boiled Beets
Ingredients
Directions
Cut off the tops of the beets, avoiding cutting into the beets themselves.
Cook the beets in boiling water until tender.
Transfer the beets to a pan of cold water.
Rub off the skins with your hands.
Slice the beets thinly and serve with lemon juice.
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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