Boiled Vegetable Marrow
Ingredients
Directions
Bring a saucepan of salted water to a boil.
Peel the marrows and add them to the boiling water.
Boil until tender, then remove with a slotted spoon.
Halve or quarter the marrows if they are large.
Serve on toast with melted butter or a small pat of salt butter.
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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