Fried Cucumbers for Mutton Sauce

Ingredients

• some butter
• cucumbers
• a little pepper
• salt
• a bit of an onion
• gravy
• juice of lemon

Method

1. 1

   Brown butter in a pan, slice cucumbers thinly, and drain them.

2. 2

   Fry until brown, then add pepper, salt, onion, and gravy.

3. 3

   Let stew together and squeeze in lemon juice before serving under the mutton.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine (1886) by William Carew Hazlitt, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

o fry Cucumbers for Mutton Sauce : — You must brown some butter in a pan, and cut the cucumbers in thin slices ; drain them from the water, then fling them into the pan, and when they are fried brown, put in a little pepper and salt, a bit of an onion and gravy, and let them stew together, and squeeze in some juice of lemon

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