Fried Artichokes

Ingredients

• three artichokes
• a breakfast-cupful of milk
• a small piece of butter
• salt
• pepper
• powdered cinnamon
• finely-grated bread

Method

1. 1

   Pare some artichokes, boil them in salt and water for about a quarter of an hour.

2. 2

   Drain, cut into slices about a quarter of an inch thick, dip in beaten egg, and strew with bread crumbs.

3. 3

   Fry in boiling oil or lard until nicely browned, and serve piled high on a dish.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 177. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt and water for about a quarter of an hour. Drain, and cut them into slices about a quarter of an inch in thickness, dip them into the white of egg well beaten, and afterwards sti'ew finely-grated bread 0.1 them. Fry in boiling oil or lard till they are nicely browned, and serve piled high on a dish. Time to fry, eight minutes. Artichokes, Jerusalem, Boiled.— Peel the artichokes, and throw each root into cold water and vinegar immediately, to preserve the colom*. Put them into l)oiling water, %vith a little salt, until sufficiently tender for a fork to pass through them easily, then pile them on a dish, and serve as hot as possible with melted butter or white sauce poured over. Soyer ART (34) ASP shaped them lite a pear, then stewed them gently in three pints of water with two or three onions thinly sliced, one ounce of salt, and one oimce of butter. He then placed a border of mashed potatoes round a dish, stuck the artichokes in it points upwards, poured over them either white sauce or melted butter, and put a fine brussels sprout between each. It made a pretty inviting dish. Time to boil, about twenty "minutes. They should be tried with a fork frequently after a quarter of an hour, as they will become black and tasteless if allowed to remain on the fire longer than necessary. Allow two pounds for a tureen. Probable cost, 2d. or 3d. per pound. Articliokes, Jerusalem, Fricasseed. — Boil some artichokes according to the pre- ceding recipe. Take them out of the water and di-ain them. Put a breakfast - cupful of milk into a saucepan, flavom- it ^^^th salt, pepper, and powdered cinnamon, and thicken it Avith a small piece of butter roUed in flour. Turn the artichokes into this, and let all stew together gently for a few minutes. Time to stew, five or six minutes. Probable cost, 2d. or 3d. per pound. Allow two pounds for a tureen. Articliokes, Jerusalem, Pried, — Pare and cut the artichokes in slices about the eighth of an inch in thickness, and fry them in sufficient boiling oil or lard for them to swim in until they are a rich brown. Strew a little salt over them, i)ile high on a dish, and send to table hot. Time to fry, eight or ten minutes. iSufficicnt, two pounds for a moderate-sized dish. Probable cost, 2d. or 3d. per poimd. Artichokes, Jerusalem, in White Sauce. — Wash and pare the artichokes,

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