Beets - Italian Fashion

Ingredients

• 6 young fresh beets
• 4 T butter
• 1 small onion chopped fine
• 3 T flour
• ^ t salt
• 54 t pepper
• 13/2 c milk
• i t vinegar
• i T lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Cook beets in boiling water until tender.

2. 2

   Drain, cover with cold water, and peel.

3. 3

   Cut into thin slices.

4. 4

   Melt butter in a frying-pan, add onion, and stir until softened.

5. 5

   Add flour, salt, pepper, and milk; cook until sauce boils.

6. 6

   Simmer, add vinegar or lemon juice, and pour over beets.

7. 7

   Serve at once.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lessons in cooking through preparation of meals (1912) by Eva Roberta Robinson, page 144. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Beets — Italian Fashion Wash well and cook 6 young fresh beets in boiling water until tender; drain, cover with cold water, and with the hands push ofif the skins, and cut the beets into thin slices. Melt 4 T butter in a frymg-pan, add i small onion chopped fine, and stir constantly until softened and yellow, but not browned, then add 3 T flour, i/^ t salt, 54 t pepper, and stir until well blended. Add }^ t sugar, and 13/2 c milk; let cook, stirring constantly until the sauce boils ; simmer a few m, add i t vinegar, or i T lemon juice

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