Name: Stewed Corn
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 dozen ears of green sweet corn; 1 large sharp knife from the top of the cob down; 1 saucepan over the fire with just enough water to make it cook without burning; 1 teacupful of milk or cream; 1 tablespoonful of cold butter; 10 minutes longer and dish up hot in a vegetable dish

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Take a dozen ears of green sweet corn, very tender and juicy; cut off the kernels, cutting with a large sharp knife from the top of the cob down; then scrape the cob. Put the corn in a saucepan over the fire with just enough water to make it cook without burning; boil about twenty minutes, then add a teacupful of milk or cream, a tablespoonful of cold butter, and season with pepper and salt. Boil ten minutes longer and dish up hot in a vegetable dish. The corn would be much sweeter if the scraped cobs were boiled first in the water that the corn is cooked in. Many like corn cooked in this manner, putting half corn and half tomatoes; either way is very good.

1 dozen ears of green sweet corn
1 large sharp knife from the top of the cob down
1 saucepan over the fire with just enough water to make it cook without burning
1 teacupful of milk or cream
1 tablespoonful of cold butter
10 minutes longer and dish up hot in a vegetable dish

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1

Take a dozen ears of green sweet corn, very tender and juicy; cut off the kernels, cutting with a large sharp knife from the top of the cob down; then scrape the cob.
2

Put the corn in a saucepan over the fire with just enough water to make it cook without burning; boil about twenty minutes, then add a teacupful of milk or cream, a tablespoonful of cold butter, and season with pepper and salt.
3

Boil ten minutes longer and dish up hot in a vegetable dish.
4

The corn would be much sweeter if the scraped cobs were boiled first in the water that the corn is cooked in.
5

Many like corn cooked in this manner, putting half corn and half tomatoes; either way is very good.

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