Boiled Beets

Ingredients

• add salt
• and pepper
• plenty of butter

Method

1. 1

   Wash the beets without cutting or scraping.

2. 2

   Boil in plenty of water until tender.

3. 3

   Rub off the skin, slice, and season with salt, pepper, and butter.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

and pepper, and serve. If the boiler is tightly covered, the milk will not be too much reduced. STRING BEANS. Break off a little from each end of the pods to remove the strings, break the pods into inch lengths, and place them in a kettle with just enough water to cover. Add half a dozen strips of salt pork, cover the kettle, and cook slowly for one hour. The water by this time should be near-ly all evaporated. Season with a little salt and pepper, and serve, the strips of pork being also placed in the dish. Serve a piece of the pork with the beans to each person at table. STRING BEANS IN MILK. After removing the strings, boil the beans in plenty of salted water for one hour. Drain, add milk to nearly cover them, and heat. When boiling, stir into the milk 26o THE PA TTERN COOK-BOOK. a little flour made into a paste with a small quantity of cold milk, using enough flour to make the milk creamy. Boil two minutes, stirring all of the time ; add butter, salt and pepper to taste, and serve hot. BAKED BEANS. (See pages 197, 198.) BEAN SOUP. (See page 92.) BEETS. Wash the beets carefully, but do not cut or scrape them nor remove any of the small roots at the bottom. If the skin is broken before cooking the flavor and color are much impaired by the water. Some cooks even rec- ommend boiling them without being washed at all, and this pl-an may be followed by those who care to go to that extreme. Boil the beets in plenty of water. Young beets will cook tender in one hour, but through the winter months four hours will be found none too long. When tender, throw the beets into a pan of cold water, and quickly rub off the skin wilh the hands ; then slice them, add salt and pepper and plenty of butter

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