Carrots, parsnips, and turnips the same, and put in layers of dry sand.
Small close cabbages laid on a stone floor before the frost sets in, will blanch and be very fine, after many weeks’ keeping.
To boil Vegetables Green.
Be sure the water boils when you put them in; when in, make them boil very fast. Do not cover, but watch them; and if the water has not slackened, you may be assured they are done when they are beginning to sink; take them out immediately, or the colour will change.
Small Dishes for Supper, &c.
Boil eggs hard, cut them in half, take out the yelks, set the whites on a dish, and fill with the following several ingredients; or put a saucer upside down on a plate, and place them in quarters round: in either case as a salmagundi. Chopped veal, yelk of egg, beetroot, anchovy, apple, onion, ham, and parsley. A very small bit of the white of the egg must be cut off, to make it stand on the dish as a cup.
Orange Butter.
Boil six eggs hard: beat the yelks in a mortar with fine sugar, orange flower water, four ounces of butter, and two ounces of almonds beaten to a paste. When all is mixed, rub it through a colander on a dish.
Roll butter in different forms; either like a pine, having made it in the shape of a cone, and marking it with a teaspoon; or rolling in a crimping form, or working it through a colander. Serve with scraped beef or anchovies, garnished with a wreath of curled parsley.
Rusks buttered, and anchovies split and rolled.