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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Introduction

Few things show the difference between comfortable and slovenly housekeeping more quickly than the dressing of vegetables. Potatoes, one of…

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