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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Salads

From time immemorial lettuce has occupied the most important place in all the salads. The Greeks served it at the end of their meals, while the Romans, who were apt to imitate them, conceived the idea of it as an appetizer, consequently they served it at the beginning of their dinners, accompanied with eggs. Its mild, sweet flavor was supposed

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