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To Dress Broccoli

A simple boiled broccoli dish seasoned with salt and optionally served with toast.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Dress Broccoli

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the broccoli head with short stalks and peel the tough skin off.

  2. Boil the broccoli for a shorter time than the small shoots.

  3. Add salt to the boiling water.

  4. Serve with or without toast.

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

Broccoli
Forms the main body of the dish; boiling softens its fibrous stalks and florets for eating.

The step that matters

Boil the stalks and shoots for different times. Thick stalks need longer to soften than delicate shoots, so timing them separately keeps the shoots from turning mushy while the stalks stay tender.

“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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