Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book

Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book, (c)1914 — the great household encyclopedia: cleaning, curing, building, baby care, and a whole cookbook bound in.

Vegetables

18 pages in this part of Household Discoveries and Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book.

Vegetables

POTATOES, peas, corn, beans, and many of the vegetables which are universally used, receive fair treatment, but in American kitchens there…

Vegetables: Turnips

Keep two utensils for their thorough cleaning, a small stiff brush, and a square of rough burlap. The brush scrubs earth from every…

Vegetables: Blanching

Blanching means bleaching; it removes from winter vegetables their strong, acrid flavor. Then it improves their quality. Let us blanch…

Vegetables: Cabbage

Blanching of vegetables means a saving of time, because they may be cooked in the leisurely hours of the morning, then quickly reheated…

Vegetables: Wash

Wash 4 or 5 heads lettuce, removing thick, bitter stalks and retaining all the sound leaves. Cook in boiling salted water for ten or…

Vegetables: Peas

Put 1 quart shelled peas in a stewpan and add enough boiling water to cover them generously. When they begin to boil, draw back where the…

Vegetables: Cover

Cover with boiling water, and boil gently twenty-five or thirty minutes.

Vegetables: Cauliflower

Remove the green leaves and the greater part of the stalk. Put the head in a pan of cold water which contains to each quart a teaspoonful…

Vegetables: Cook

Break the cauliflower into branches and season with half the salt and pepper. Put the butter in a saucepan. When hot, add the flour, and…

Vegetables: Boiled

When done, turn into a colander and pour cold water over them. They are ready now to serve with any kind of sauce, or can be seasoned with…

Vegetables: Kale

Cook kale the same as cabbage with pork.

Vegetables: Boil

To clean spinach, cut off the roots, break the leaves apart and drop in a pan of water, rinsing them well. Continue washing in clean water…

Vegetables: Drain

Drain the blanched spinach and chop fine, return to the saucepan, and add salt, pepper, and butter. Place on the fire, and cook ten minutes.

Vegetables: Dash

MRS. CURTIS'S COOKBOOK 2 cupfuls peeled and cut tomatoes, 2 cupfuls grated bread crumbs, 1 level teaspoonful salt, 1 tablespoonful butter…

Vegetables: White

Scrape carrots lightly, then cut into large dice. Put in a stewpan with salted water and boil until tender.

Vegetables: Stewed

Remove the leaves from the stalks.

Vegetables: Eggplant

For baked eggplant make a dressing as for stuffed peppers, except that a little more salt, pepper, and butter are used. Cut the eggplant in…

Vegetables: Sprinkle

Wipe 4 tomatoes, pare, and cut in 3 slices. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, dredge generously with flour, and sauté in butter, first on one…

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