Baked Cauliflower

Ingredients

• Two table-spoonfuls of butter
• One table-spoonful of flour
• One pint of milk
• Salt and pepper to taste
• about half a pint of crumbs
• two table-spoonfuls of cheese

Method

1. 1

   Boil the cauliflower until tender, drain, and tear into clusters.

2. 2

   Place a layer in a baking dish, moisten with sauce made from butter, flour, milk, and seasoning.

3. 3

   Add grated cheese, layer more cauliflower, pour remaining sauce, and top with cheese and bread crumbs.

4. 4

   Bake for twenty minutes.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 115. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED CAULIFLOWER. Boil the vegetable tender as directed in the preceding recipe, drain well, remove it from the cloth, and tear the 264 THE PA TTERN COOK-BOOK. clusters or flowers from the stem. Place a layer of these clusters in a baking dish. Have ready a sauce made of Two table-spoonfuls of butter. One table-spoonful of flour. One pint of milk. Salt and pepper to taste. Heat the butter, add the flour, and when the mixture froths and is smooth, add the milk and seasoning. Moisten the layer of cauliflower in the baking-dish with a few spoonfuls of this sauce, and sprinkle ove'r it some grated cheese, using the latter according to taste. Then arrange another layer of the cauliflower, add the rest of the sauce, and sprinkle thickly with cheese and bread crumbs. The dish will require about half a pint of crumbs and two table-spoonfuls of cheese

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