Mrs Beetons Vegetables Revisited
To Boil Young Greens or Sprouts
Young Greens or Sprouts
To each 2˝lt (4 pints) Water allow:
1 tbsp (heaped) Salt
Bicarbonate of Soda
Remove all the dead leaves and wash well in cold water.
Drain in a colander.
Put them into fast boiling water, with salt and bicarbonate of soda.
Keep them boiling quickly, uncovered, until tender.
As soon as they are done, remove, or their colour will be spoiled.
Drain well, serve.
The great art in cooking greens properly and to retain a good colour, is to put them into plenty of fast boiling water, to let them boil very quickly and to take them up the moment they become tender.
Time: Broccoli sprouts, 10 to 12 minutes, young greens, 10 to 12 minutes.
Sprouts, 12 minutes, after the water boils..
Seasonable: Sprouts of various kinds may be had all the year.
TO BOIL YOUNG GREENS OR SPROUTS
1097. INGREDIENTS - To each 1/2 gallon of water allow 1 heaped tablespoonful of salt; a very small piece of soda.
Mode - Pick away all the dead leaves, and wash the greens well in cold water; drain them in a colander, and put them into fast-boiling water, with salt and soda in the above proportion. Keep them boiling quickly, with the lid uncovered, until tender; and the moment they are done, take them up, or their colour will be spoiled; when well drained, serve. The great art in cooking greens properly, and to have them a good colour, is to put them into plenty of fast-boiling water, to let them boil very quickly, and to take them up the moment they become tender.
Time - Brocoli sprouts, 10 to 12 minutes; young greens, 10 to 12 minutes; sprouts, 12 minutes, after the water boils.
Seasonable - Sprouts of various kinds may be had all the year.
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