Boiled Dinner
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- Ingredients
- Corned beef (2 or 3 pounds)
- 2 or 3 potatoes
- ½ small cabbage
- 2 turnips
- 3 or 4 small carrots
- Utensils
- Large covered saucepan
- Vegetable-knife
- Directions
1.
Follow the directions above for boiling the beef.
2.
While the beef is boiling, wash and prepare the vegetables. The potatoes, turnips, and carrots should be peeled, and the cabbage cut into two or three parts.
3.
After the beef has boiled three hours, put the cabbage and turnips in the water with it. Twenty minutes later add the potatoes and carrots.
4.
Continue boiling until the beef has cooked four hours, then drain off the water, put the beef on a hot platter, and arrange the vegetables around it.
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