Chestnut Vegetable

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. chestnuts
• 1 tablespoonful finely chopped mushrooms
• f pint thick brown gravy
• 1 oz. smoked beef

Method

1. 1

   Peel off the hard outside skin of the chestnuts and put the nuts into boiling water for a few minutes.

2. 2

   Remove the thin inside skin and boil the nuts till tender in salted water, about half an hour, then drain them.

3. 3

   Cut the smoked beef into tiny dice, cook them and the chopped mushrooms in the thick gravy, toss the chestnuts in this sauce, pile them high in a dish and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Dainty dinners and dishes for Jewish families (1907) by May Henry, Kate Halford, page 38. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHESTNUT VEGETABLE. 2 lbs. chestnuts. 1 tablespoonful finely chopped f pint thick brown gravy. mushrooms. 1 oz. smoked beef

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