Lettuce Timbales

Ingredients

• Eight firm cabbage lettuces
• 3 eggs
• gill rich gravy
• gill Madeira sauce
• 2 oz. butter
• f oz. flour
• \ gill double cream
• salt
• pepper
• nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Trim and wash the lettuces, boil fast till tender in slightly-salted water, drain, squeeze out the moisture, and chop finely.

2. 2

   Melt 2 oz. of butter in a stew-pan, add the flour, stir for a few minutes, then add the minced lettuces, moisten with the gravy, stir till simmering; cook for a few minutes, remove from fire, let cool a little; add yolks of 3 eggs and whites of 2, also the cream.

3. 3

   Season to taste.

4. 4

   Fill well-buttered moulds, stand in a saute-pan half filled with boiling water, and poach in the oven for 30 to 35 minutes.

5. 5

   Unmould on a hot dish, and serve with Madeira sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How to cook vegetables (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 55. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lettuce Timbales. Eight firm cabbage lettuces, 3 eggs, gill rich gravy, | gill Madeira sauce, 2 oz. butter, f oz. flour, \ gill double cream, salt, pepper, and nutmeg

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