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To Boil Vegetables Green

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Boil Vegetables Green

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dress the vegetables and place them in a large pot of boiling water.

  2. Add coarse sea salt to the water and skim it well.

  3. Boil the vegetables uncovered until they are tender, being careful not to overcook them.

  4. If using hard water, add ¼ teaspoon of carbonate of soda to improve color, but use sparingly.

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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