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Beets with Butter

A simple boiled beet dish seasoned with salt and butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Beets with Butter

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the beets

  1. Wash the beets, being careful not to break the skin.

  2. Place the beets in a saucepan and cover generously with boiling water.

  3. Boil until tender; young beets will cook in about 1 hour, while older beets may take 4 hours or more.

  4. Once cooked, transfer the beets to cold water.

Peel and serve

  1. Rub off the skin and cut the beets into thin slices.

  2. Season with salt and butter, then serve immediately.

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

Beets
Provide the main body, sweetness and earthy flavour of the dish.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, glossy coating to the warm slices.

The step that matters

Boil until tender. Beets vary widely in age and size, so cooking time differs greatly. Undercooked beets stay firm and fibrous, while the skin and flesh soften only once the roots are fully tender through to the centre.

“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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