For scalloping, cut potatoes into cubes, quarter or
tear apart onions, separate the flowerets of cauliflower.
Cabbage leaves, if not separated before cooking, must
be pulled apart. Season the vegetable as directed
above, put it into a baking-dish, pour over it Thin
White Sauce, allowing one cupful and a half of sauce
to each pint of vegetables. Cover with buttered
crumbs, and bake till the crumbs are brown.
Ingredients for Thin White Sauce
Butter, 2 tablespoonfuls. Milk, 1 cupful.
Flour, \}i tablespoonfuls. Salt, y^ teaspoonful, or more.
Pepper, }i teaspoonful.
394. Vegetables served raw. Celery. Use only the
inner stalks. Wash these, scraping them if not per-
fectly white, cut off all but a little of the tops, and
soak in cold water till crisp. Serve them laid in a
glass dish. Cucumbers. The seeds and coarse fibres
of cucumbers make them one of the most indigestible
of foods. Soaking in salt water wilts them, increasing
their indigestibility. Pare them, cut thick slices from
the ends to remove medicinal salts, and slice thin.
Radishes. Wash and cut off the tops, make cuts across
the tops of the roots through the skin, and turn this
back in points. Tomatoes. Peel and slice in half-inch
slices. (See Preparation of Tomatoes in table.) Serve
very cold.
Keep the rest
of the water
to use in mak-
ing Cream-
of-Asparagus
Soup.
Cooking in
salted water
wrinkles and
hardens corn.
6
00
Drain, and butter.
Serve on strips of
toast moistened
with the cook-
ing water and
buttered.
Serve with o u t
draining; sea-
son with butter
and i)epper.
liemove husks and
serve ears whole,
In a napkin. Or
shave off" the top
of the kernels,
scrape out the
pulp with the
back of a knife,
season with but-
ter, pepper, and
salt, and reheat
with a little milk.
K
S
H
5 .- .2
"^ ra
H
d
5
o
Q
O
a
Stand the asparagus in
a deep kettle, and
pour in boiling water
to cover all but the
tips. Let it boil tightly
covered till the stalks
are tender. The steam
cooks the heads. Salt
when nearly tender.
Cook uncovered in
barely enough boiling
water to cover them.
Let this boil down
toward the last. Salt
when nearly done.
Cook in boiling water
until, when a kernel
is pressed, no juice
flows.
u
to
Cut stalks off as far
down as they are
brittle. Untie the
bunches, wash stalks,
and retie them in
bunches right to serve
to one person. Tie
these into one bunch
again, and stand it in
cold water till put on
to cook.
-a
a
.a
Take off outer husks ;
remove silk ; fold in-
ner husks back over
the ear.
e
i'l
Q
Stalks should be green ;
the ends should show
that they have been
recently cut.
Keep standing in
cold water.
11
P.
tcji: a
Silk should be brown.
Tear husk open, and
see that ear is filled
with well-developed
kernels. Try a ker-
nel with your nail, —
sweet milky juice
should flow. Remove
outer husks as soon
as it comes from
market. Cook as soon
as possible. Corn is
injured by keeping.
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Tops of sum-
mer beetP
may be
cooked with
roots, and
served se])a-
r a t e 1 y as
"greens."
Avoid trying
beets till you
think they
are r e a 1 1 \
done.
Serve without
draining; sea-
son with butter
and pepper.
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For scalloping, cut potatoes into cubes, quarter or
tear apart onions, separate the flowerets of cauliflower.
Cabbage leaves, if not separated before cooking, must
be pulled apart. Season the vegetable as directed
above, put it into a baking-dish, pour over it Thin
White Sauce, allowing one cupful and a half of sauce
to each pint of vegetables. Cover with buttered
crumbs, and bake till the crumbs are brown.
Ingredients for Thin White Sauce
Butter, 2 tablespoonfuls. Milk, 1 cupful.
Flour, \}i tablespoonfuls. Salt, y^ teaspoonful, or more.
Pepper, }i teaspoonful.
394. Vegetables served raw. Celery. Use only the
inner stalks. Wash these, scraping them if not per-
fectly white, cut off all but a little of the tops, and
soak in cold water till crisp. Serve them laid in a
glass dish. Cucumbers. The seeds and coarse fibres
of cucumbers make them one of the most indigestible
of foods. Soaking in salt water wilts them, increasing
their indigestibility. Pare them, cut thick slices from
the ends to remove medicinal salts, and slice thin.
Radishes. Wash and cut off the tops, make cuts across
the tops of the roots through the skin, and turn this
back in points. Tomatoes. Peel and slice in half-inch
slices. (See Preparation of Tomatoes in table.) Serve
very cold.
Keep the rest
of the water
to use in mak-
ing Cream-
of-Asparagus
Soup.
Cooking in
salted water
wrinkles and
hardens corn.
6
00
Drain, and butter.
Serve on strips of
toast moistened
with the cook-
ing water and
buttered.
Serve with o u t
draining; sea-
son with butter
and i)epper.
liemove husks and
serve ears whole,
In a napkin. Or
shave off" the top
of the kernels,
scrape out the
pulp with the
back of a knife,
season with but-
ter, pepper, and
salt, and reheat
with a little milk.
K
S
H
5 .- .2
"^ ra
H
d
5
o
Q
O
a
Stand the asparagus in
a deep kettle, and
pour in boiling water
to cover all but the
tips. Let it boil tightly
covered till the stalks
are tender. The steam
cooks the heads. Salt
when nearly tender.
Cook uncovered in
barely enough boiling
water to cover them.
Let this boil down
toward the last. Salt
when nearly done.
Cook in boiling water
until, when a kernel
is pressed, no juice
flows.
u
to
Cut stalks off as far
down as they are
brittle. Untie the
bunches, wash stalks,
and retie them in
bunches right to serve
to one person. Tie
these into one bunch
again, and stand it in
cold water till put on
to cook.
-a
a
.a
Take off outer husks ;
remove silk ; fold in-
ner husks back over
the ear.
e
i'l
Q
Stalks should be green ;
the ends should show
that they have been
recently cut.
Keep standing in
cold water.
11
P.
tcji: a
Silk should be brown.
Tear husk open, and
see that ear is filled
with well-developed
kernels. Try a ker-
nel with your nail, —
sweet milky juice
should flow. Remove
outer husks as soon
as it comes from
market. Cook as soon
as possible. Corn is
injured by keeping.
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•
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<
00
<
'5~
5
244
Tops of sum-
mer beetP
may be
cooked with
roots, and
served se])a-
r a t e 1 y as
"greens."
Avoid trying
beets till you
think they
are r e a 1 1 \
done.
Serve without
draining; sea-
son with butter
and pepper.