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Artichokes a la Grecque

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 8

Serve very cold with cooking liquor.

Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 87. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

ARTICHOKES A LA GRECQUE Take some very small and tender artichokes. Pare them, cut the leaves short, and plunge them into a large saucepan of acidulated water. Set to parboil for eight or ten minutes, drain, cool in fresh water, and drain once more in a sieve. For twenty artichokes prepare the following liquor :—one pint of water, one-quarter pint of oil, a little salt, the juice of three lemons, a few fennel and coriander seeds, some pepper- corns, a sprig of thyme, and a bay-leaf

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