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Boiled Corn

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Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. a tablespoonful of sugar
  3. Milk

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.

Method

  1. Strip off all the husks, remove the silk, and boil rapidly in water to cover, adding a tablespoonful of sugar;
  2. serve immediately with butter, pepper, and salt.
  3. Butter may be added to the water instead of sugar;
  4. it whitens and enriches the corn;
  5. or, boil in salted milk, drain, and serve with melted butter.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Colander
Source Public domain in the USA
Credit

From The Myrtle Reed Cook Book, by Myrtle Reed (1905). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #37680 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37680). 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.