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General Table for Cooking Vegetables

Vegetables Special Directions Asparagus Tough lower ends cut off Time for Cooking 20 to 40 minutes 1 to 4 hours 45 minutes Beets (old) Cook unpeeled Beets (young) Cook unpeeled Green Beans Remove strings and cut in 1-inch lengths 1 to 2 hours 15 to 20 minutes Brussel Sprouts Cabbage Carrots Remove wilted or yellow leaves.

Soak in salt cold water for an hour.

Cut small head of cabbage into 4 parts. Soak in cold salt water.

Scrape, do not peel. Cut in slices or cubes if large or old.

Cauliflower Remove green leaves and thick stalk. Soak head down in cold water containing teaspoonful of salt and teaspoonful of vinegar.

Remove leaves. Scrape stalk.

Cut in 3-inch pieces.

Celery Cucumbers Peel and cut in thick slices.

Corn Remove husks and silk. on cob 25 to 45 minutes 20 to 30 minutes 20 to 25 minutes 30 minutes 15 minutes 15 to 20 minutes Serve On toast with drawn butter or other sauce With butter With vinegar With butter With butter or any sauce.

With butter or cream sauce.

With butter or cream sauce, or see p. 36.

With butter or cream sauce.

With butter or cream sauce, or see p. 36.

With butter or flour and butter sauce.

Wrap in napkin.

Egg Plant See page 37 for special recipe.

Mushrooms See page 37 for special recipe.

Onions Peel and cut off roots.

Okra Parsnips Peas Potatoes See page 37 for special recipe.

Wash and boil and then scrape off the skins. Cut in slices.

Shell and boil slowly. Add salt when nearly done.

Scrape when old and cook with skins on when young. 20 to 40 minutes 35 to 40 minutes 20 to 40 minutes 25 to 30 minutes With butter or cream sauce, or see p. 37.

With butter or cream sauce.

With butter or a little milk, or see p. 38.

See pp. 38, 39.

Vegetables Special Directions Spinach Wash thoroughly in five or six waters. Use very little water in cooking Time for Cooking 15 to 20 Serve minutes Chopped and served with butter and a little vinegar, if desired, or with cream sauce.

Squash Peel and cut (if the squash is (summer) very old the seeds should be removed).

Squash May be served as summer (winter) squash, only always remove seeds and stringy portion.

Peel and cut in pieces.

Tomatoes Turnips Peel and slice. Mash with wooden masher when done. 30 to 35 minutes 1 to 1 hours 20 to 30 minutes Mashed, with salt, pepperand butter.

Mashed. See p. 39.

Add sugar, or salt and pepper, or see p. 39.

Mashed, with butter, salt and 40 to 50 minutes pepper, or see p. 40.

Lima Beans Boil gently and add salt when they are nearly done. 25 to 30 minutes With butter.