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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Soup Crécy

I pint of water, Piece of bacon rind or a small piece of bacon, Salt and pepper to taste.

Scrape and grate the carrots into the water; add the bacon, onion and bay-leaves. Simmer gently thirty minutes. Then remove the bay-leaves and bacon, add the milk and seasoning and, when boiling hot, serve.

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