Boiled Dinner

Ingredients

• 5 lb. corned beef
• 1 small cabbage
• 2 turnips
• 2 carrots (if liked)
• 8 medium potatoes
• enough boiling water to cover the meat entirely

Method

1. 1

   Wipe the meat thoroughly, put it into kettle, cover it with cold water, and let it come to the boiling point.

2. 2

   Then let it simmer about two and one half hours, or until it is tender.

3. 3

   Prepare the vegetables; cut the cabbage into quarters; slice turnips and carrots into half inch slices.

4. 4

   An hour and a half before dinner time skim off the fat from the liquid, add the cabbage, turnip, and carrots, and an hour later add the potatoes.

5. 5

   Cook the beets separately.

6. 6

   When the vegetables are tender, remove them carefully and drain off the water from the cabbage by pressing it in a colander.

7. 7

   Slice the beets, and cover the slices with vinegar.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Household science and arts (1913) by Josephine Morris, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

5 lb. corned beef 1 small cabbage 2 turnips 2 carrots (if liked) 4 beets 8 medium potatoes enough boiling water to cover the meat entirely. Cover the saucepan and allow the water to boil for ten minutes. Lower the temperature, placing the saucepan on a part of the range where the water will simmer^ until the meat is tender. Allow about fifteen minutes for each pound of meat after the temperature is lowered. BOILED SALT OR SMOKED MEATS Hams should be soaked in cold water overnight before cooking. All salt or smoked meat should have its fat scraped, and the meat itself should be washed in cold water. Then place the meat in a large saucepan and cover it with cold water. Heat it slowly to the boiling point, boil it eight minutes, then cook it slowly until it is tender. The average time for salt meat is thirty minutes to a pound, and it is well to allow it to stand in the water in which it is cooked until it is nearly cool. BOILED DINNER

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