Back to recipes
Cauliflower with tomato sauce, an original illustrative image based on the cited recipe

Dinner

Cauliflower with tomato sauce

Cauliflower with tomato sauce, preserved from Marion Harland’s 1903 cookbook with ingredient cues including boil a whole cauliflower for ten minutes in fresh water.

DinnerVegetarianStovetopPublic domainHistoric recipeSource transcription
Est. prep10 min
Est. cook10 min
Est. serves4
Total20 min
Archive reference—not quantity-scaled yet.

Prep, cook, and serving values are clearly labeled editorial estimates. This transcription still needs a verified yield and modern kitchen adaptation before WorkLife will allow it to create a shopping cart.

From the cited source

Source ingredient cues

These cues were extracted from the historical method for discovery. Use the complete source method and citation alongside them.

  • Boil a whole cauliflower for ten minutes in fresh water;
  • drain and boil until tender in salted water.
  • Put into a vegetable dish, flower side up, rub thoroughly with butter, then sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  • Last of all, pour over the cauliflower a pint of tomato sauce.

Historical transcription

Source method

  1. 1

    Boil a whole cauliflower for ten minutes in fresh water; drain and boil until tender in salted water. Put into a vegetable dish, flower side up, rub thoroughly with butter, then sprinkle with salt and pepper. Last of all, pour over the cauliflower a pint of tomato sauce.

Nutrition pending

No invented nutrition numbers.

WorkLife will publish nutrition and scalable serving quantities only after this historical transcription receives a measured modern adaptation.