Braised Lettuce

Ingredients

• twelve white heart cabbage lettuces
• a carrot
• a small bouquet
• an onion
• two cloves stuck in the onion
• thin layers of fat bacon
• a buttered piece of paper

Method

1. 1

   Trim and wash lettuces, season, tie with string, place in pan with bacon, carrot, bouquet, and onion.

2. 2

   Cover with paper, moisten with stock, boil slowly for 50 minutes.

3. 3

   Drain, remove strings, press, and prepare for serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with .. (1902) by Lida Seely, page 135. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Braieed Lettuce Trim, wash, and scald twelve white heart cabbage lettuces. Drain them on a cloth, cut and spread them open, season with pepper and salt, tie each one up with a string, and place in a pan on thiu layers of fat bacon. Add a carrot, a small bou- quet, and an onion with two cloves stuck in it. Cover with a buttered piece of paper

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