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Vegetables Appropriate To Different Dishes

p. 167 · The White House Cook Book
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Potatoes are good with all meats. With fowls they are nicest mashed.

Sweet potatoes are most appropriate with roast meats, as also are

onions, winter squash, cucumbers and asparagus.

Carrots, parsnips, turnips, greens and cabbage are generally eaten

with boiled meat, and corn, beets, peas and beans are appropriate to

either boiled or roasted meat. Mashed turnip is good with roast pork

and with boiled meats. Tomatoes are good with almost every kind of

meats, especially with roasts.

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