How To Dress Parsnips

Boil parsnips in a great deal of water, and when they are soft which you may know by running a fork into them, take them up, and scrape them clean: - this done, scrape them fine with a knife, throwing away the stringy parts. Take the scrapings, and put them into a sauce-pan with milk, stirring them together till they are thick, then put in a good piece of butter with a little salt. As soon as the butter is melted, fend them to the table.

How To Stew Parsnips

Scrape the parsnips very clean, boil them tender, and cut them into slices;, put them into a sauce-pan with a sufficient quantity of cream; then add a piece of butter rolled in flour with a little salt. When the cream boils, pour them into a plate.

How To Mash Parsnips

Scrape them very clean, and boil them till they are tender. Then scrape off all the soft part into a sauce pan : put in as much cream or milk as will serve to stew them; keep them stirring till they are quite thick, and then put in a good piece of butter. When the butter is melted, Tend them to the table.

How To Boil Carrots

Scrape the carrots clean, and boil them till they are enough, which will be in half an hour, if they are young spring carrots; but if old and large, they will take two hours. Then (lice them into a plate, and put some melted butter over them.

How To Boil Turneps

Boil turneps till they are enough, and then you may readily perceive which are good, if they are not all so. Put them into a pan, and mash them with butter and a little salt, and fend them to the table.

How To Dress Beans And Bacon

Throw salt into the water with parsely carefully picked; and then put in the beans, which must be boiled by themselves, for the bacon will spoil the colour of the beans,if they should be boiled together. Therefore the bacon must be boiled in another pot by itself. When the beans are tender, put them into a cullender to drain. In the mean time take up the bacon, and skin it. Then take crumbs of bread and sprinkle over the top. This done, take a large red hot poker, or other iron, and hold it over the bacon to make the bread brown. If you have not this conveniency, set it near the fire, and make it brown that way. Lay the beans in the dish, and the bacon in the middle on the top of the beans. Put melted butter in a bason by itself.

How To Dress Windsor-Beans

Take Windsor-beans, and boil them till they are tender. Then take off the outside skin, or blanch them, and fry them in clarified butter. Put them in a dish, and pour melted butter over them mixt with a drop or two of vinegar. Strew a mixture of salt, pepper and nutmeg over them.

How To Boil French-Beans

After you have taken off the firings, cut them into two, longways, and then through the middle. Some cut them into four, and then across. Lay them in water and salt till the sauce-pan boils, and then put them in. Likewise throw some salt into the boiling water. When they are tender, they are enough, which will be very soon. Lay them on a plate or dish, and some butter by itself in a cup.