Dressed Cauliflower

Ingredients

• One large cauliflower
• two ounces of butter
• one egg
• four table-spoonfuls of bread crumbs
• one tea-spoonful of salt
• one half tea-spoonful of pepper

Method

1. 1

   Soak cauliflower in salted water for twenty minutes.

2. 2

   Boil in fresh water for twenty minutes.

3. 3

   Chop finely, mix with butter, bread crumbs, pepper, salt, and beaten egg.

4. 4

   Place in a dish, top with remaining butter, and bake until pale brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRESSED CAULIFLOWER — TURNIPS IN WHITE SAUCE. 117 When this is done put the cream into a bowl, beat it until very light, add the egg, and beat both together until thoroughly blended. Season this mixture with the pepper, salt, cayenne, and mustard, pour into it the boiled macaroni, add to this two ounces of the cheese and one ounce of the butter, and when all has been well mixed, pour it out upon a platter, sprinkle over the remainder of the cheese, and dis- tribute over also the remaining ounce of butter in small pieces. Place the platter in a moderate oven, and bake its contents for ten minutes, and serve at once upon the dish upon which it is prepared. Cauliflower. — One large cauliflower, two ounces of butter, one egg, four table-spoonfuls of bread crumbs, one tea-spoonful of salt, one half tea-spoonful of pepper

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