Mushroom Essence
From Recipes for the million, 1891
Serves 4
This will not keep long but is very delicate in flavor.
Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
Ingredients
Method
As published
This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 146. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
SHROOMS, Essence of. — Take a sufficient quantity of either flap or button mushrooms, sprinkle them with salt, let them stand for three hours, then mash them. Next day strain off the liquor that will have flowed from them, put it into a stew-pan, and boil it to half its quantity
Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.