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"VEGETABLE DISHES—How to Cook.
I will first take up the sweetest (?) vegetable we have—truly, however, one of the most healthful, if not the most healthful, of all our vegetables. It is very much used, but ought to be used more extensively than it is in every family in the land. I refer to the well-known
Onion, How to Cook It with Milk or Cream, Avoiding the Strong Flavor. —Peel, wash, and slice (under water to prevent affecting the eyes), 3 to 6, according to the size of the family, put into boiling water and boil 1 to 2 minutes, and drain off the water (which removes the acrid oil in which their peculiar sweet flavor resides); then pour over them a cup of scalding milk (cream is better still), in which a pinch of soda has been dissolved; put in a table-spoonful of butter, and cook till tender; pepper and salt, and stir 1/2 a tea-spoonful of corn starch or flour in a little cold milk and stir in,
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