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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Sweet-Bread Salad

Clean and parboil one pair of sweet-breads. Then throw them into cold water to blanch a half hour. Remove the fat and every particle of the thin skin. Then cut into thin slices with a silver knife and stand away in a cold place until wanted. When ready to serve put one goodsized slice of onion in the bottom of the salad bowl and arrange over and around it crisp lettuce leaves. On top of this arrange the sweet-breads, cover with Mayonnaise dressing, and serve.

This slice of onion gives just the faintest suspicion of onion and is a great improvement.

One dozen crabs, 2 roots of celery,

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