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Vegetable Marrow

Boiled vegetable marrow served with white sauce or melted butter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Vegetable Marrow

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Remove the thick skin from the vegetable marrow and cut it into blocks.

  2. Wash the blocks in cold water.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil the blocks in salted water until tender, about 20 to 30 minutes.

  2. Drain and serve with white sauce or melted butter.

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

Vegetable marrow
Forms the dish itself, softening into tender pieces when boiled.

“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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