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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Clear Vegetable Soup

5 quarts of cold water, I turnip, I white potato, I cup of peas, I tomato, I tablespoonful of rice.

Put the shin in a large kettle, cover with water, simmer gently three hours. This may be done the day before, if you wish. Then strain, remove every particle of fat from the surface and return to the soup kettle. If you make it the day before, the fat when cold, will float on the surface

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