Brussels Sprouts Wisdom
For years I have cut a cross in the bottoms of brussels sprouts, but this time I bought them ready to cook, I forgot about it, and it didn't make any difference.
[Ava Astaire McKenzie, At Home in Ireland : Cooking and Entertaining with Ava Astaire McKenzie (Niwot, Colorado : Roberts Rinehart Publishers, 1998), p. 102.]
So there.