Broad Beans with Custard Sauce

Ingredients

• enough of them to fill a quart measure to the brim
• half-gallon stewpan filled with water
• half an ounce of fresh butter
• one ounce of flour
• three-quarters of a pint of the eau de cuisson
• a coffeecupful of the broth
• three yolks of eggs
• a tablespoonful of minced chervil
• a tablespoonful of minced parsley

Method

1. 1

   Put water in a stewpan, season with salt and add butter.

2. 2

   Boil, then add beans and cook until skins part easily.

3. 3

   Drain, cool, and shell beans.

4. 4

   Melt butter, mix in flour, then gradually stir in eau de cuisson.

5. 5

   Bring to boil, remove from heat, add broth mixed with yolks, stir in beans, and warm in bain-marie.

6. 6

   Add chervil and parsley, serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 224. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Broad Beans with Custard Sauce. — When the Beans are about three-parts grown shell enough of them to fill a quart measure to the brim. Put a half-gallon stewpan on the fire two-thirds filled with water, season this with a dessertspoonful of salt, and put into it half an ounce of fresh butter. Let it come to the boil, then put in the beans, and boil them till the skin pai’ts easily from the bean when pressed gently between the finger and thumb. Then drain them in a colander, saving -the eau de cuisson in which they have been cooked, pour cold water over the beans, and then pinch them out of their skins. Next, melt an ounce of butter in a quart stewpan, mix in, over a low fire, one ounce of flour, and when well cooked, yet not coloured, stir in by degrees three-quarters of a pint of the eau de cuisson. Bring to the boil, take off the fire, add a coffeecup- ful of the broth into which three yolks of eggs have been mixed, stir well, put in the beans, and set the pan in the bain- marie. Warm up when required, but do not let the sauce boil. Add a tablespoonful of minced chervil

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