This section is from the book "Lessons In Cookery", by Thomas K. Chambers. Also available from Amazon: Lessons In Cookery.
Ingredients. - Carrots or turnips. Two tablespoonfuls of salt. Half a pint of good stock. Dessertspoonful of castor-sugar. Half an ounce of butter.
Time required, about three-quarters of an hour.
For Carrots:
1. Take a saucepan of water and put it on the fire to boil.
2. When the water is quite boiling, add a tablespoon-ful of salt.
3. Take the carrots, and if they are quite young, put them into the saucepan of boiling water, to boil for twenty minutes.
4. Take a fork and stick it in the carrots, to feel that they are quite tender all through.
5. You should let them boil for from half an hour to three-quarters of an hour.
6. After that time, take them out of the saucepan and rub them clean with a cloth.
N. B. - If the carrots are old, you should wash, scrape them clean with a knife, and cut them to the shape of young carrots, or cut them out with a round cutter, before boiling.
7. Take a stewpan and put the boiled carrots in it.
8. Pour in some good stock-enough to cover them.
9. Put in a piece of butter the size of a nut, and sprinkle a little white castor-sugar over them.
10. Put the stewpan on the fire to boil, and reduce to a glaze over the carrots.
11. Then take them out of the stewpan, and they are ready for use.
For Turnips:
1. Take the turnips and wash them well in cold water.
2. Take them out of the water, put them on a board, peel them with a sharp knife, and cut them in quarters, or cut them out with a round cutter.
3. Take a saucepan of water and put it on the fire to boil.
4. When the water is quite boiling, add a tablespoon-ful of salt.
5. Now put in the cut-up turnips, and let them boil for from ten to fifteen minutes.
6. When they are sufficiently boiled, take them out of the saucepan and put them into a stewpan with some good stock-enough to cover them.
7. Add to them a piece of butter, and sprinkle over them about a teaspoonful of castor-sugar.
8. Put the stewpan on the fire to boil, and reduce to a glaze over the turnips.
9. Then take them out of the stewpan, and they are ready for serving.
N. B. - Turnips and carrots as prepared above may be served with braised veal (see "Braised Fillet of Veal"), or separately as a vegetable.
 
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