To Boil Carrots

Modern cookery for private families · Acton, Eliza · 1845
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Modern cookery for private families
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Instructions (10)
  1. Wash the carrots, and scrape the skin off lightly with the edge of a sharp knife, or pare them as thin and as equally as possible.
  2. Free them from all blemishes.
  3. If carrots are very large, divide them, and cut the thick parts into quarters.
  4. Rinse them well.
  5. Throw them into plenty of boiling water with some salt in it.
  6. Boil very young carrots for 20 to 30 minutes.
  7. Boil full-grown carrots for 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
  8. It was formerly the custom to tie them in a cloth, and to wipe the skin from them with it after they were dressed; and old-fashioned cooks still use one to remove it.
  9. Serve with the least possible delay after they are ready for table.
  10. Serve with melted butter.
Original Text
TO BOIL CARROTS. Wash the mould from them, and scrape the skin off lightly with the edge of a sharp knife, or, should this be objected to, pare them as thin and as equally as possible; in either case free them from all blemishes, and should they be very large, divide them, and cut the thick parts into quarters; rinse them well, and throw them into plenty of boiling water with some salt in it. The skin of very young carrots may be rubbed off like that of new potatoes, and from twenty to thirty minutes will then be sufficient to boil them; but at their full growth they will require from an hour and a half to two hours. It was formerly the custom to tie them in a cloth, and to wipe the skin from them with it after they were dressed; and old-fashioned cooks still use one to remove it; but all vegetables should, we think, be dished and served with the least possible delay after they are ready for table. Melted butter should accompany boiled carrots. Very young carrots, 20 to 30 minutes. Full-grown ones, 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
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