How to Cook Vegetables

The seed grower's cookbook, 1890 — every vegetable Burpee sold, and how Mrs. Rorer would have you cook it.

About the Book

1890Published
Mrs. S. T. RorerAuthor
454Recipes

W. Atlee Burpee & Co., the Philadelphia seed growers, hired Mrs. S. T. Rorer of the Philadelphia Cooking School to answer their customers' commonest question: how do you cook it? How to Cook Vegetables (© 1890) is the answer, vegetable by vegetable, with salads and full menus at the back.

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