Baked Cauliflower

Ingredients

• a cupful of breadcrumbs
• two tablespoonfuls of melted butter
• three of cream or milk
• pepper
• salt
• a well-beaten egg

Method

1. 1

   When the cauliflower is nearly boiled, cut the stalk flat so that it fills a buttered pudding-dish like a flat bouquet.

2. 2

   Beat up the breadcrumbs with melted butter, cream or milk, season with pepper and salt, add the egg, and cover the cauliflower with the mixture.

3. 3

   Bake for six minutes in a quick oven, brown for five minutes more, and serve in the same dish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 230. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Cauliflower. — When the Cauliflower is nearly boiled try with a skewer if it is tender. Then cut the stalk flat, so that the Cauliflower fills a buttered pudding-dish like a flat bouquet. Beat up a cupful of breadcrumbs to a soft paste with two tablespoonfuls of melted butter, and three of cream or milk. Season with pepper and salt, add a well -beaten egg

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