The hazel nut
      The filbert
      The cobnut
      The walnut
      The butternut
      The hickory nut
      The pecan
      The peanut or ground nut
      Recipes:
        To blanch almonds
        Boiled chestnuts
        Mashed chestnuts
        Baked chestnuts
        To keep nuts fresh
      Table topics.

    THE LEGUMES
      Composition and nutritive value
      Legumes as a substitute for animal food
      Legumin, or vegetable casein
      Chinese cheese
      Legumes the “pulse” of Scripture
      Diet of the pyramid builders
      Digestibility of legumes
      A fourteenth century recipe
      The green legumes
      Suggestions for cooking
      Slow cooking preferable
      Soaking the dry seeds
      Effects of hard water upon the legumes
      Temperature of water for cooking
      Amount of water required
      Addition of salt to legumes
      Peas, description of
      Buying votes with peas
      A commemorative dinner
      Peas bainocks
      Peas sausages
      Peas pudding
      Time required for cooking
      Recipes:
        Stewed split peas
        Peas puree
        Mashed peas
        Peas cakes
        Dried green peas
      Beans, description of
      Mention of beans in Scripture
      Beans in mythology
      Time required for digestion
      Method of cooking
      Experiment of an English cook
      Parboiling beans
      Time required to cook
      Recipes:
        Baked beans
        Boiled beans
        Beans boiled in a bag
        Scalloped beans
        Stewed beans
        Mashed beans
        Stewed Lima beans
        Succotash
        Pulp succotash
      Lentils, description of
      Use of lentils by the ancients
      Lentil meal
      Preparation for cooking
      Recipes:
        Lentil puree
        Lentils mashed with beans
        Lentil gravy with rice
      Table topics.

    VEGETABLES
      Composition and nutritive value of vegetables
      Exclusive diet of vegetables not desirable
      To select vegetables
      Poison in potato sprouts
      Stale vegetables a cause of illness
      Keeping vegetables
      To freshen withered vegetables
      Storing winter vegetables
      Preparation and cooking
      To clean vegetables for cooking
      Methods of cooking
      Time required for cooking various vegetables
      Irish potato, description of
      The chemistry of cooking
      Digestibility of the potato
      New potatoes
      Preparation and cooking
      Recipes: 
        Potatoes boiled in “jackets”
        Boiled potatoes without skins
        Steamed