A Kitchen Time Table. A Schedule Useful In Cooking Summer Vegetables

Early peas will boil in half or three-quarters of an hour. They are best put on with cold water; add salt when nearly done.

String beans require two hours or more. The first water should always be poured off.

Lima beans will cook in three-quarters of an hour. Put on to cook in hot water.

Asparagus will boil in three-quarters of an hour. Use cold water.

Spinach will boil in fifteen minutes. Use hot water.

Summer beets will boil in one hour. Use hot water.

Winter beets will require three hours. Use hot water.

Corn will boil in twenty minutes. Use hot water.

Onions will boil in one and a half hours. Use hot water.

New potatoes will boil in one-half hour. Use boiling water.

Dried corn must be soaked over night. Allow to cook one hour.

Summer squash is better steamed, as putting it in water makes it too watery. Cook three-quarters of an hour.

Turnips require a long time to cook. If cut thin, they will cook in an hour and a quarter; but if only cut in halves, it will take two hours and a half.

French Way Of Dressing Lima Beans

Boil the beans in the usual way, then pour the water off (not drain dry) and add butter, pepper and salt sufficient to season them; put them on coals and stew them. Just before they are dished, beat the yolk of an egg very light and stir it in the beans. Do not put them on the fire after the egg is added.

Boiled Peas

They should be fresh when cooked and boiled in just enough water to cover them, which should be salted and boiling when the peas are put in. Let them cook only twenty minutes, unless old, and keep the vessel uncovered. Drain off all the water. Pour melted butter over them.

How To Bake Salsify

Boil the salsify until the skin comes off easily; then slice and put in a baking-dish a layer of sliced salsify and one of bread-crumbs, with pepper and salt, with a thin covering of butter. Repeat the layers until the dish is filled, finishing with bread-crumbs. Then pour in as much milk as the dish will hold, and a good spoonful of butter, put in oven and bake brown. It will be done in half an hour.

Curled Savoy Cabbage Cooked Like Cauliflower

Take hard heads, quarter them, put in to boil with a little salt and a pinch of soda in the water, say half teaspoonful. Let it boil until tender. Drain off and serve with drawn butter.

How To Boil Rice Dry

Pick the rice clean and wash it in two cold waters, not draining off the last water until ready to put the rice on the fire. Prepare a saucepan of water with a little salt in it. When it boils sprinkle in the rice. Boil it hard twenty minutes, keeping it covered. Then take it from the fire, pour off the water, and then set the saucepan on the back of the range with the lid off, while the rest of the dinner is being dished, so as to allow the rice time to dry and the grains to separate. Rice, if properly cooked, should be soft and white and each grain should stand alone.