Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesLeslie, Eliza
General
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
Leslie, Eliza
Cooking, American
Take large fine potatoes; wash and dry them, and either lay them on the
hearth and keep them buried in hot wood ashes, or bake them slowly in a
Dutch oven. They will not be done in less than two hours. It will save
time to half-boil them before they are roasted. Send them to table with
the skins on, and eat them with cold butter and salt. They are
introduced with cold meat at supper.
Potatoes keep best buried in sand or earth. They should never be wetted
till they are washed for cooking. If you have them in the cellar, see
that they are well covered with matting or old carpet, as the frost
injures them greatly.
SWEET POTATOES BOILED.
If among your sweet potatoes there should he any that are very large
and thick, split them, and cut them in four, that they may not require
longer time to cook than the others. Boil them with the skins on in
plenty of water, but without any salt. You may set the pot on coals in
the corner. Try them with a fork, and see that they are done all
through; they will take at least an hour. Then drain off the water, and
set them for a few minutes in a tin pan before the fire, or in the
stove, that they may be well dried. Peel them before they are sent to
table.
FRIED SWEET POTATOES.
Choose them of the largest size. Half boil them, and then having taken
off the skins, cut the potatoes in slices, and fry them in butter, or
in nice dripping.
Sweet potatoes are very good stewed with fresh pork, veal, or beef.
The best way to keep them through the cold weather, is to bury them in
earth or sand; otherwise they will be scarcely eatable after October.
CABBAGE.
All vegetables of the cabbage kind should be carefully washed, and
examined in case of insects lurking among the leaves. To prepare a
cabbage for boiling, remove the outer leaves, and pare and trim the
stalk, cutting it close and short. If the cabbage is large, quarter it;
if small, cut it in half; and let it stand for a while in a deep part
of cold water with the large end downwards. Put it into a pot with
plenty of water, (having first tied it together to keep it whole while
boiling,) and, taking off the scum, boil it two hours, or till the
stalk is quite tender. When done, drain and squeeze it well. Before you
send it to table introduce a little fresh butter between the leaves; or
have melted butter in a boat. If it has been boiled with meat add no
butter to it.
A young cabbage will boil in an hour or an hour and a half.
CALE-CANNON.
Boil separately some potatoes and cabbage. When done, drain and squeeze
the cabbage, and chop or mince it very small. Mash the potatoes, and
mix them gradually but thoroughly with the chopped cabbage, adding
butter, pepper and salt. There should be twice as much potato as
cabbage.
Cale-cannon is eaten with corned beef, boiled pork, or bacon.
Cabbages may be kept good all winter by burying them in a hole dug in
the ground.
CAULIFLOWER
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