Boiled Lettuce

Ingredients

• Two or three Lettuces
• One ounce of Butter
• One teaspoonful of Sugar
• Pepper
• Salt
• One pint of Stock
• One dessertspoonful of chopped Parsley
• One tablespoonful of Flour

Method

1. 1

   Wash and trim the lettuces, cutting away the roots.

2. 2

   Boil in water for 1-2 minutes, then cool in cold water.

3. 3

   Melt butter in a stewpan, add sugar, pepper, salt, and lettuces.

4. 4

   Pour stock into the pan and boil for 30 minutes until tender.

5. 5

   Put lettuces in a hot dish, thicken gravy with flour, add parsley, pour over and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Easy dishes for small incomes, or, The housewife's guide to practical cookery (1906) by E. M. Buchan, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOILED LETTUCE Ingredients : Two or three Lettuces One ounce of Butter One teaspoonful of Sugar Pepper and Salt. One pint of Stock One dessertspoonful of chopped Parsley One tablespoonful of Flour

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