Chestnuts in Brown Sauce

Ingredients

• Chestnuts,
• Butter, 1 tablespoon
• Browned flour, 1 tablespoon
• Chicken gravy (well seasoned), 1 cup
• Onion juice, Salt and pepper.

Method

1. 1

   Shell and blanch the chestnuts, boil them in salted water for 10 minutes.

2. 2

   Make a brown sauce of the other ingredients, and should the gravy be not highly seasoned, add to it a tablespoon of good catsup.

3. 3

   Good stock for this may be made from giblets.

4. 4

   Lay the chestnuts in this sauce, and let them cook half an hour.

5. 5

   This is an excellent dish to serve with fowls, roasted or broiled.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Around-the-world cook book (1913) by Mary Louise Barroll, page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CHESTNUTS IN BROWN SAUCE Chestnuts, Butter, 1 tablespoon, Browned flour, 1 tablespoon. Chicken gravy (well seasoned), 1 cup, Onion juice, Salt and pepper.

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