Lentils, Housewife Style

Ingredients

• a pound of lentils
• about two ounces of streaky bacon
• half an ounce of butter
• a gill of Espagnole sauce or good gravy

Method

1. 1

   Wash, cook, and drain the lentils.

2. 2

   Fry diced bacon in butter for three minutes.

3. 3

   Return lentils to the pan with sauce and bacon, stir, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 167. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

e pound of lentils, and boil them in about two quarts of water and a dessert- spoonful of salt till done, then drain them in the usual way. Meanwhile prepare a quarter of a pound of mattre d'hdtel butter, to which mix a tablespoonful or two of the liquor in which the lentils were boiled ; add these to the sauce, toss them up till hot and well-mixed, and serve. 380 PRACTICAL HOUSEHOLD COOKERY. 778. LENTILS^ HOUSEWIFE STYLE. Wiusli, cook, and drain a pound of lentUs, as in No. 777. Meanwhile cut about two ounces of streaky bacon (free from rind) in very small dice, and fry them with half an ounce of butter for three minutes. When the lentils have been properly drained, return them to the stewpan with either a gill of Espagnole sauoe or good gravy

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