Sue's Diner: Boiled Parsnips and Carrots

This week's recipe for Boiled Parsnips and Carrots is adapted from adapted from Miss Beecher’s domestic receiptbook: designed as a supplement to her Treatise on domestic economy.

This recipe is also featured in the BryonySeries cookbook: Memories in the Kitchen: Bites and Nibbles from "Bryony," which is a permament fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Will and Grundy Counties.

Moreoever, this recipe is also quintessential Victorian. Meaning, the directions for making this dish is vague and non-specific. So have fun!

This recipe is referenced in the novel Bryony. Here is the explanation from the cookbook:

 The Munsonville Times was so impressed by the spread John Simons served for his wedding to Miss Bryony Marseilles that the newspaper listed each item. 

Rebekah and I chose this recipe because she loves carrots and developed a liking for parsnips when she was a culinary student at Joliet Junior College.

Besides, we figured after all the holidays treats, readers want to eat healthy in the new year (at least in January).

You can try the recipe for Boiled Parsnips and Carrots on the Sue's Diner page on the BryonySeries website. 

But try the recipe this week. It will be gone some time next week. A new recipe will take it's place.

By the way, Sue's Diner is only real in the BryonySeries world. But didn't Timothy do a great job making the page look like a real menu at a vintage diner?

Here is the full diner page: bryonyseries.com/sue-s-diner. You can't really order, of course (wouldn't it be great if you could?).

For more BryonySeries recipes, check out our three cookbooks at our BryonySeries bryonyseries.com/general-store.