Recommended boiling times for vegetables and fish, 1922

That's the treatment my gran's brussels sprouts got, but they did come in at something between golf and cricket ball in size.

This is why I hated vegetables as a kid.

15 minutes of boiled veggies sounds like mush.

Cripes there’d be no colour left in the beetroot never mind flavour!

Well, when you think of all the germs they had back then

@HellFood

Definitely how my mother cooks. Peas-oh my! The beetroot would be colourless and bland.

60 minutes?!?!?!?

My mother would assume they really meant ‘hours’

Explains much of my grandmother's cooking!!