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Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Dip
  2. Water
  3. Cut
  4. 1 teaspoonful of salt

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Use only small ones.
  2. Wash and cut off all but an inch or two of root and leaves.
  3. Blanch 5 minutes, cold-dip and scrape off skin and stems.
  4. They may be packed in jar sliced or whole.
  5. Add 1 teaspoonful of salt and cover with boiling water.
  6. Put on rubber and top and adjust top bail or screw top on with thumb and little finger.
  7. Sterilize 90 minutes in hot-water bath.
  8. Remove, complete seal and cool.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From A Little Preserving Book for a Little Girl, by Waterman, Amy Harlow (Lane), Mrs. (1920). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #44848 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44848). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.