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To Boil Vegetables Green

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Boil Vegetables Green

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Bring a pot of water to a rolling boil.

  2. Add 1 teaspoon of coarse sea salt to the boiling water.

  3. Add the vegetables and boil them rapidly without covering the pot.

  4. Watch the vegetables; they are done when they begin to sink.

  5. Remove them immediately to preserve their color.

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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