best boiled in a net. Spinach cooks in a few minutes; some persons
prefer it when boiled in salt and water; you should have drawn butter or
hard eggs to eat with it when done in this way. There are several kinds
of wild greens to be found in the country in the spring, as wild
mustard, poke and lambs-quarter, which are very good cooked as cabbage
sprouts. Pour boiling water on poke, after tying it in bunches, as
asparagus, let it stand a few minutes; pour off the water; boil it with
a little salt in the water, and if you choose a little salaeratus; dress
it with butter, and dish it as asparagus.


String Beans.

String beans, if boiled in salt and water, will require fully two hours;
but if boiled in a net, in a pot with bacon, they will not take so long;
if they are cooked in the same pot with cabbage, it will injure the
flavor. It is a good way to boil a very small piece of pork or bacon, or
a ham-bone in the pot with beans; when they are done, season them with
cream, butter, salt and pepper.


Lima Beans.

Shell them, and wash them in cold water; let them boil about an hour;
when done, dip them from the water, and season with salt, pepper, cream
or butter; keep them hot till they are sent to table.

Dried Lima beans should be soaked over night, and boiled two hours or
longer, if they are not soft.