114 JOINTS- OK COOKING RARE VEGETABLES. 



age, and may be served up with melted butter, gravy, 

 &c. ; but they are very good when cooked and eaten 

 with fat pork, or good old-fashioned Hampshire bacon. 



Beans, Kidney. — These should not be suffered to 

 get old and tough before gathered ; be careful in trim- 

 ming them to cut off the stalk end first, and then turn 

 to the point and strip off the strings ; put them into 

 the water while boiling, which should be previously 

 seasoned with salt ; when they are tender, which will 

 be in from fifteen to twenty minutes, take them up, 

 and drain them through a colander, in order to render 

 them capable of absorbing a due share of gravy, 

 melted butter, &c. 



Beans, Lima. — These should be shelled while 

 fresh, and boiled in plenty of water until tender, which 

 generally takes from fifteen to twenty minutes. Some 

 cook them in the winter after having been dried, in 

 which case they should be soaked in soft water for a 

 few hours, and then put into the water cold and 

 boiled until tender with a little salt ; but salted 

 meat being boiled with them, answers the same,pur- 

 pose, and makes them sweeter and more wholesome. 

 They are served up with butter, &c. 



Broccoli and Cauliflower. — These delicious 

 vegetable luxuries should be gathered while the head 

 is close and perfect. After having trimmed off some 

 of their outside leaves, let them be boiled in plenty of 

 water seasoned with salt, taking care to skim the pot 

 before putting the vegetables therein, and also to ease 

 the cover so as not to confine the steam. Take them up 

 as soon as the fork will enter the stems easily, which 

 will take from ten to twenty minutes, according to their 

 size and age ; drain them so as to make them susceptible 

 of absorbing a due proportion of gravy, melted butter, 

 &c. this renders them a palatable and dainty dish. 



Cabbage, Colewort, Kale, and greens in general, 

 should be put into hot water seasoned with salt, and 



