Brussels Sprouts au Lard

Ingredients

• a pound of sprouts
• 6oz. of either ham or bacon
• sprinkle the sprouts with coralline pepper

Method

1. 1

   Soak the sprouts, trim them, and boil in slightly salted water for fifteen minutes.

2. 2

   Drain and fry diced ham or bacon until crisp.

3. 3

   Remove bacon, fry sprouts in bacon fat for five minutes, mix in bacon, and serve hot with grated Parmesan cheese.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "Queen" cookery books: Vegetables (1902) by S. Beaty-Pownall, page 19. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Brussels sprouts au lard. — Soak the sprouts in the usual way, choosing the smallest, and trimming them evenly ; then put them on in slightly salted water, and boil for fifteen minutes, when thev must be laid on •/ VEGETABLES. a sieve to drain. Cut 6oz. of either ham or bacon into dice and fry these till crisp, but not discoloured ; now- lift out the bacon, lay the sprouts into the pan it was in, sprinkle the sprouts with coralline pepper, and fry them for five minutes in the bacon fat. Now mix the bacon with them, and turn it all out on to a hot dish, strew a spoonful of grated Parmesan cheese over it and serve very hot. Brussels sprouts d la creme. — Soak, trim, and well blanch a pound of sprouts

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