Boiled Celery

Ingredients

• three heads of Celery
• 1 dessert-spoonful of flour
• 1 table-spoonful of butter
• some peppercorns, a piece of mace, an onion, and a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Trim and cut the Celery into 6 inch lengths, wash, and tie together.

2. 2

   Cover with boiling water, add spices, and boil.

3. 3

   Make a sauce with flour and butter, adding the water from boiling the Celery.

4. 4

   Beat an egg with lemon juice and stir into the sauce off the fire.

5. 5

   Serve the Celery with the sauce poured over.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 207. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Celery. — (1) Cut off all outside pieces, and trim the roots of three heads of Celery ; cut them into 6in. lengths, wash them well, and tie together. Cover them with boiling water in a saucepan, add some peppercorns, a piece of mace, an onion, and a little salt, and boil them. Put 1 dessert- spoonful of flour and 1 table-spoonful of butter

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