Luckily my mum had a pressure cooker so no over-boiled veg. I was born in '53 and when we started Cookery lessons in school I'd never cooked veg in a saucepan but was the only one versed in the art of, yup!, pressure cooking.
@Mrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants, my mum used the same and when I got married I used a pressure cooker for many many years. Quick and easy but mighty heavy to pick up when it was done. Perfect veg inside though.
I've never used a pressure cooker. There was talk when I was a child (1960's) of 'getting one' for stews but my mum couldn't get over the thought of one exploding - so it never happened. Every so often I toy with the idea but now I can't get that thought out of my head either.😆
My mum hated all veg except peas. My dad loved them so, fortunately, we grew up eating some veg. It was, however, a never ending rotation of potatoes, carrots, onions, cauliflower, sprouts and peas. All plain boiled (but not to death!) - no cauliflower cheeses or roasted veg until I made them myself in my teens. Definitely no parsnips or swede - which mother considered devil's food. Think I first encountered broccoli in the 1980's.
We were another family where parents were brought up through the war and endured years of rationing. They were well into the habit of limiting food portions and insisting everything on the plate was eaten. They also never threw away a piece of string and presents were carefully unwrapped, sellotape peeled off, the paper smoothed and later reused to wrap another present. My mother hardly ever bought wrapping paper - we had a large drawer full of carefully folded stuff supplied by other people.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
When cooking for a family I frequently used a pressure cooker for soups, stews, steamed puddings etc. I’d never have used it for green leafy veg … by the time it was up to pressure the veg would be cooked surely? I know the pressure cookers came complete with a ‘basket’ to cook potatoes and veg above the rest of the meal, but again potatoes need longer than cabbage so you’d constantly be reducing and increasing the pressure .., or ending up with the mush a relative served us from hers 😧
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We were another family where parents were brought up through the war and endured years of rationing. They were well into the habit of limiting food portions and insisting everything on the plate was eaten. They also never threw away a piece of string and presents were carefully unwrapped, sellotape peeled off, the paper smoothed and later reused to wrap another present. My mother hardly ever bought wrapping paper - we had a large drawer full of carefully folded stuff supplied by other people.
Reminded me of when I visited my dad and found out he'd painted his enamel breadbin green. When I asked him why, he said that he'd had a little bit of green paint left over from a project, and he didn't want to waste it
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My mum hated all veg except peas. My dad loved them so, fortunately, we grew up eating some veg. It was, however, a never ending rotation of potatoes, carrots, onions, cauliflower, sprouts and peas. All plain boiled (but not to death!) - no cauliflower cheeses or roasted veg until I made them myself in my teens. Definitely no parsnips or swede - which mother considered devil's food. Think I first encountered broccoli in the 1980's.
We were another family where parents were brought up through the war and endured years of rationing. They were well into the habit of limiting food portions and insisting everything on the plate was eaten. They also never threw away a piece of string and presents were carefully unwrapped, sellotape peeled off, the paper smoothed and later reused to wrap another present. My mother hardly ever bought wrapping paper - we had a large drawer full of carefully folded stuff supplied by other people.
I’d never have used it for green leafy veg … by the time it was up to pressure the veg would be cooked surely? I know the pressure cookers came complete with a ‘basket’ to cook potatoes and veg above the rest of the meal, but again potatoes need longer than cabbage so you’d constantly be reducing and increasing the pressure .., or ending up with the mush a relative served us from hers 😧
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.