Advice on Most Useful Vegetables ~1847

List of most useful vegetables 1840s

Advice on Vegetables.

Discovered this list of the most useful vegetables. How does this compare with your average shopping list?

Our common household vegetables:

  • Carrots
  • Onions
  • Potatoes
  • Celery
  • Cabbage
  • Cauliflower
  • Beets
  • Broccoli
  • Peas (frozen)

Herbs hanging in my window:

  • Mint
  • Basil
  • Dill
  • Parsley (in cupboard, actually)

 

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Source: Cheap receipts and hints on cookery; collected for distribution amongst the Irish peasantry in 1847.

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