Name: Vegetable Marrow
Ingredients: 1 medium marrow; Boiling water; Salt; ½ cup melted butter

Vegetable Marrow

Ingredients

1 medium marrow
Boiling water
Salt
½ cup melted butter

Directions

Prepare

Wipe and peel the marrow thinly.
Cut it in four from end to end and remove the seeds.
Cut into neat pieces.

Cook and serve

Place in boiling salted water and boil gently until tender.
Drain, dish on toast, and coat with 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Marrow: Forms the main body of the dish and becomes soft and tender when boiled.
Butter: Adds richness and moisture when melted over the cooked marrow.

“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.