Lentils

Ingredients

• 2 cups of lentils
• a little butter
• an onion

Method

1. 1

   Pick, wash, and soak lentils.

2. 2

   Boil gently until done.

3. 3

   Heat butter with flour, fry onion until yellow, add lentils, and simmer for 30 minutes before serving.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook County cook book (1912) by Associated College Women Workers, page 274. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LENTILS. — Pick the lentils over carefully, wash thoroughly and soak several hours, put them on with clear, cold water, and boil them gently until done; heat a little butter with a little flouri in it, add an onion, fry until it turns yellow, drain off some of the water the lentils were boiled in, add them to the dressing, and simmer Yz hr. longer before serving. — Mrs. E. D. Kelley, Win- netka, 111. LENTIL CROQUETTES.— Make a paste of the following: J/^ lb. of lentils. Wash the lentils well. Soak them in cold water all night. Tie them up in muslin, and boil for 1 hr. in the water in which they were soaked, adding pepper and salt. Squeeze out as much as possible of the water, and rub the lentils tfhrough a sieve. Make a panada or thick sauce with Yz oz. of butter, ^ oz, of flour, and milk. Cook well, add the lentil pulp, the yolks of 3 eggs, 1 oz. of flour, and seasoning. Cook well and turn on to a plate. It is better to make it the day before it is wanted. — Mrs. M. H. Lamont, 2953 Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. "DAL," AN INDIAN I^NTIL.— Sift, pick, and wash V^ lb. Dal. Chop fine a small onion, and fry it in a piece of butter the size of a walnut, add the washed Dal, ^ pt. of water, and a level teaspoon of salt. Let all boil up quickly, then set back to boil gently for J^ an hr. longer. Stir occasionally. Send to table in a 400 VEGETABLES vegetable dish, and at the same time, in a similar dish, serve plain boiled rice, light and dry, the grains, soft, yet each one separate. ^ lb. Dal, and ^ Vb. rice are enough for two persons. Total cost, 4yi cents. — Mrs. Chas. A. Nelson, 4860 Kenmore Ave., Chicago, 111. LENTILS — EGYPTIAN STYLE.— Wash 2 cups of lentils

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