Time Required

For Cooking the Following Meats and Vegetables.

Beef, sirloin, rare, per pound, eight to ten minutes.

Beef, sirloin, well done, per pound, twelve to fifteen minutes.

Chickens, three or four pounds weight, one to one and one-half hours.

Duck, tame, from forty to sixty minutes.

Lamb, well done, per pound, fifteen minutes.

Pork, well done, per pound, thirty minutes.

Turkey, ten pounds, three hours.

Veal, well done, per pound, twenty minutes.

Potatoes, boiled, thirty minutes.

Potatoes, baked, forty-five minutes.

Sweet potatoes, boiled, forty-five minutes.

Sweet potatoes, baked, one hour.

Squash, boiled, twenty-five minutes.

Squash, baked, forty-five minutes.

Green peas, boiled, twenty to forty minutes.

String beans, one to two hours.

Green corn, from twenty to thirty minutes.

Asparagus, fifteen to thirty minutes.

Spinach, one to two hours.

Tomatoes, one hour.

Cabbage, forty-five minutes to two hours.

Cauliflower, one to two hours.

Dandelions, two to three hours.

Beet greens, one hour.

Onions, one to two hours.

Beets, one to five hours.

Turnips, forty-five minutes to one hour.

Parsnips, from one-half to one hour.