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To Boil Green Vegetables

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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To Boil Green Vegetables

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the vegetables thoroughly and remove any decayed leaves or discolored parts.

  2. Cut the vegetables into quarters and remove the hard stalks.

  3. Soak the pieces in cold water with a little vinegar for 30 minutes to remove insects.

  4. Wash again in fresh cold water.

  5. Plunge the vegetables into boiling salted water and boil rapidly without a lid until tender.

  6. Drain immediately and serve hot.

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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