How to Cook Vegetables

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

Menus and Emergency Dinners

9 recipes in this part of How to Cook Vegetables.

Dinner (Cream of Corn Soup Boiled Rice)

Cream of Corn Soup, Boiled Rice, Tomato Catsup, Coffee. Raw Tomatoes, Lima Beans, French Dressing, Cauliflower with Cream Sauce, Wafers…

Supper (Salad of Cucumbers)

Salad of Cucumbers and Tomatoes, Compote of Pears, Wafers, Tea.

Breakfast (XVII)

Baked Apples, Grits, Sugar and Cream, Omelet, Baked Potatoes, Muffins, Coffee.

Lunch (XV)

Macaroni Croquettes, Tomato Sauce, Endive Salad, Gingerbread, Cocoa.

Dinner (VIII)

Salsify Soup, Caper Sauce, Stuffed Potatoes, Stewed Canned Tomatoes, Mayonnaise of Celery, Apple Pie, Coffee.

A Simple Thanksgiving Dinner

Boiled Haddock, Boiled Rice, Wafers, Mince Pie, Tomato Soup, French Fried Potatoes, Roasted Chicken, Giblet Sauce, Cranberries, Mayonnaise…

A Gentlemen's Fish Supper

Raw Oysters in a Block of Ice, Fried Black Bass, Lobster Cutlets, Stewed Potatoes, Tea Biscuits, Mayonnaise of Salmon, Welsh Rarebit…

Christmas Dinner

Cherrystone Oysters on Half Shell, Fried Smelts, Sauce Piquant, Boiled Rice, Clear Soup with Croûtons, French Fried Potatoes, Roasted Wild…

An Emergency Dinner of Canned Goods

Cream of Tomato Soup, Boiled-Salt of Mackerel, Parsley Sauce, String Beans. Wafers, Lyonnaise Potatoes, Timbale of Macaroni, Cream Sauce…

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