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Cauliflower Served Whole

A whole cauliflower is boiled after soaking in salted water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cauliflower Served Whole

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the cauliflower thoroughly and remove all outer leaves.

  2. Soak the cauliflower, floret side down, in a deep dish of water with a handful of coarse sea salt for 3–4 hours.

  3. Shake off the water and tie the cauliflower in a piece of fine muslin.

Cook and serve

  1. Drop it into a pot of briskly boiling salted water and boil slowly for 40 minutes.

  2. Remove the cloth carefully and place the cauliflower, floret side up, in a deep dish.

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

Cauliflower
Forms the whole dish; its dense florets soften and turn tender during the long boil.

“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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