Boiled Dinner - American Recipe

Boiled Dinner

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Large covered saucepan, Vegetable-knife

Traditional boiled dinner — straightforward 1920s home cooking.

Ingredients

• Corned beef (2 or 3 pounds)
• 2 or 3 potatoes
• ½ small cabbage
• 2 turnips
• 3 or 4 small carrots

Method

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.

Tags: beef, potato, carrot, cabbage, turnip · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)