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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Vegetables

295 recipes

Salads and Dressings

149 recipes

Menus and Emergency Dinners

9 recipes

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Egyptian Salad (Halves or if small simply)

in halves, or if small, simply remove the stem ends. Make a little nest of two or three lettuce leaves, arrange uniformly on a…

Horse-Radish Vinegar

I teacup of grated horse-radish, I tablespoonful of granulated I quart of cider vinegar, sugar. Put the horse-radish in two glass…

Sauerkraut

Shred the cabbage fine. Line the bottom and sides of a small keg with the green cabbage leaves, put in a layer of the cabbage…

Onion Vinegar (I quart of cider vinegar large)

I quart of cider vinegar, 2 large Spanish onions or 4 ordi- 2 teaspoonfuls of white sugar, nary white onions, I teaspoonful of…

Baked Parsnips

6 good-sized parsnips, I tablespoonful of flour, I tablespoonful of butter, 1½ teaspoonful of salt, Dash of pepper. > Wash and…

Winter (Raw Oysters on Half Shell)

Raw Oysters on Half Shell, Bouillon, Olives, Celery, French Peas, Salted Almonds, Cream Sauce, Gherkins. Lobster Cutlets, Milk…

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