Curried Lentils

Ingredients

• half a pint of lentils
• half a small onion
• half a peeled, chopped apple
• half an ounce of oiled butter
• a dessert-spoonful of flour
• a dessert-spoonful of curry powder
• about half a pint of stock or water
• season with salt
• and pepper

Method

1. 1

   Wash lentils, soak in tepid water, then drain.

2. 2

   Chop onion and apple, mix with butter, add flour and curry powder, then lentils.

3. 3

   Mix with stock or water, season, place in a buttered paper-bag, and cook in a moderately heated oven for about 30 to 40 minutes.

4. 4

   Serve with boiled rice.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The paper-bag cookery manual (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Curried Lentils. Wash half a pint of lentils, and put in tepid water to soak for several hours, then drain. Peel and chop finely half a small onion, and mix with half a peeled, chopped apple, and half an ounce of oiled butter; add to it a dessert-spoonful of flour, a dessert-spoonful of curry powder, now add the lentils, mix with about half a pint of stock or water, and season with salt and pepper

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