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How to cook vegetables

1911

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Presented as published in 1911. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
The strong and often offensive smell caused in boiling cabbage, cauliflowers, onions, leeks, and other greens, can be avoided by using lots of water, changing it once or twice during the cooking, and by putting a piece of toasted bread or a crust of bread along with them whilst boiling, leaving the lid off. This also preserves colour, which is further assisted by a pinch of soda in the water. It is essential that all vegetables and their sauces should be served hot. All root vegetables, such as potatoes, artichokes, turnips, parsnips, carrots, beetroot, etc., are infinitely superior if served with a good sauce. Next to these come sprouts, celery, leeks, onions, marrow, cauliflowers, tomatoes, cucumber, asparagus, spinach, broad beans, haricot beans, mushrooms, scarlet beans, French beans, and seakale, all of which are made more wholesome, more tasty, and certainly more appetising, if a suitable sauce is served with them, or is incorporated in some way. 2I5 To Make Vegetable Sauces Smoother than you can make them with flour, thicken with Brown & Poison’s “ Patent ” Corn Flour. It stays in the saucepan a little longer, but is quick to mix; no lumps to beat out. It “goes” twice as far as wheat flour. If you once thicken vegetable sauces with Brown & Polso n’s “ Patent ” Corn Flour you will never be content with ordinary wheat flour again. Ask for Brown & Poison’s “ Patent ” Corn Flour the economical kind. Keep it beside the salt and pepper. It is just as indispensable to good cookery. GENERAL INDEX PACE Artichoke bottoms & la B6chamel 12 with eggs M fritters ol 15 au gratin 1 3 a l'ltalienne 12 a la Jardiniere . . m a la Lucullus a la Polonaise . . 16 a la Portugaise . . 14 Piovengale, salad 01 ..13- 16 a la Viiieroi 15 chips, devilled and tried 18 fritters 17 (J erusalem) . . l6 salad 19 soup (or Palestine) 17 quarters, tried 12 souffles 18 Aitichokes, boiled 18 with foie-gras 11 (globe) 9 a la Colbert IO (green), boiled 11 soup 31 (Jerusalem) a l’Alsacienne 19 au gratia l8 a 12 Lyonoaise & & ia Pomade IO Asparagus, boiled . . 20 broth . . 22 with melted butter .. 21 with carrots . . 26 fricassee, omelet 25 a la Hoilandaise 21 a l’Huile 21 a 1’Indienne . . 22 with peas 23 (points), with scrambled eggs 24 a la Royaie 25 for soups or garniture 23 salad, with cauliflower 24 with shrimps 24 soup (cream) 22 with vegetables . . 21 a la Vinaigrette 26 Aubergine fritters 29 pie 30 Aubergines a la Chatelaine 28 a l’Espagnole 27 a la Russe 28 stuffed 20 a la Parisienne . . 2 7 a la Turque . . 28 a la Viennoise 30 Banana omelet (savoury) 33 salad . . 33 sauce (savoury) 33 stuffing (savoury) 34 Bananas with bacon 31 fried, on toast 32 as vegetable . . 32 PAGE Bean salad, baked 36 soup a la Condi 42 (broad) puree, soup . . 39 Beans (French) purie . . 42 saute in butter . . 42 souffle 44 (haricot) salad (mixed) 37 timbales . . 35 Beans, baked (broad) with bacon . . 36 38 a la Poulette 39 savoury . . 40 and tomatoes (curried) 39 Beans (butter) . . 36 croquettes 38 savoury 37 Beans (French) . . 40 - a la Bourguignonne 43 dried 44 English style 41 a la Frangaise 43 ala Maitred’Hotel 43 a la Poulette 42 preserved (in salt) 44 salad 43 Beans (haricot) . . 34 with carrots (flageolets^ 38 with parsley sauce : savoury