Name: To Boil Vegetables Green
Ingredients: vegetables of choice; 1 teaspoon salt of wormwood (if using hard water)

To Boil Vegetables Green

Ingredients

vegetables of choice
1 teaspoon salt of wormwood (if using hard water)

Directions

Clean the vegetables thoroughly and wash them well.
Boil plenty of water in a pot.
Add the vegetables to the boiling water and ensure it continues to boil rapidly.
Do not cover the pot; watch the vegetables closely.
Remove the vegetables when they begin to sink to avoid losing their color.
If using hard water, add 1 teaspoon of salt of wormwood to the boiling water before adding the vegetables.

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.