How to Cook Vegetables

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

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Broccoli

Pick off the leaves and cut the stalks close to the bottom of the bunch; throw into cold water half an hour, then tie in a piece of cheese-cloth to prevent breaking; put into a kettle of salted, boiling water and boil twenty minutes. Take out carefully, loosen the cheese-cloth, place the broccoli head up in a hot dish. Pour around it a half pint of Cream Sauce and serve very hot.

I quart of sprouts, 2 ounces of butter,

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