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Vegetable Drainer
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By Alexis Soyer
Published 1854
The above is a sketch of a saucepan, fitted with a perforated pan and a vegetable drainer.
This group, though extremely simple, is perhaps one of the most economical cooking utensils ever put before the public, and ought to have a place in every kitchen.
It possesses two great qualities, inasmuch as it saves time, and supersedes the tedious method of fishing the greens or cabbage out of the saucepan; and prevents the now every-day evil of emptying with the water in which the vegetables have been boiled, a quantity of the material, which by accident might be left in the pot—thereby clogging up the drain, to the annoyance of the household. To be had of Messrs.