The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Beeton

1174. INGREDIENTS.--The ears of young and green Indian wheat; to every

1/2 gallon of water allow 1 heaped tablespoonful of salt. _Mode_.--This vegetable, which makes one of the most delicious dishes brought to table, is unfortunately very rarely seen in Britain; and we wonder that, in the gardens of the wealthy, it is not invariably cultivated. Our sun, it is true, possesses hardly power sufficient to ripen maize; but, with well-prepared ground, and in a favourable position, it might be sufficiently advanced by the beginning of autumn to serve as a vegetable. The outside sheath being taken off and the waving fibres