Croquettes

Ingredients

• two tablespoonfuls of butter
• one slice of onion
• one slice of carrot
• one clove
• a bay leaf
• one tablespoonful of dry flour
• one generous cupful of stock
• a level teaspoonful of salt
• one-fifth of a teaspoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Put butter into a frying-pan with onion, carrot, clove, and bay leaf.

2. 2

   Cook until the butter begins to turn brown; then add flour and stir until dark brown.

3. 3

   Gradually add stock, salt, and pepper.

4. 4

   Cook for five minutes, then strain.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 202. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Croquettes. — Put two table-spoonfuls of butter into a frying-pan with one slice of onion, one of carrot, one clove, and a bay leaf. Cook all together until the butter begins to turn brown ; then add one table-spoonful of dry flour, and stir until it turns dark brown. Now draw the pan back, and gradually add one generous cupful of stock. Add also a level teaspoonful of salt and one-fifth of a teaspoonful of pepper

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