Mushrooms, Fricassee of

Ingredients

• a quart of mushrooms
• a table-spoonful of butter
• a teacupful of soup stock
• pepper
• salt
• thyme
• mace
• the beaten yolks of three eggs
• the juice of a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Peel mushrooms, boil, cool, and dry.

2. 2

   Melt butter, add mushrooms, stir, thicken with flour, season, add stock, simmer for 30 minutes.

3. 3

   Strain gravy, add yolks and lemon juice, serve over toast.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 471. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mushrooms, Fricassee of. — Peel a quart of mushrooms. Put in boiling Mushrooms for Garnish VEGETABLES Mushroom Toast water, then in cold water. Take out and wipe dry. Melt a table-spoonful of butter in a saucepan and lay in the mushrooms. Keep over the fire and stir. Add flour to thicken, with pep- per, salt, thyme, and mace. Pour in a teacupful of soup stock and let sim- mer half an hour. Take out the mush- rooms ; strain the gravy, to which add the beaten yolks of three eggs and the juice of a lemon. Arrange the mush- rooms on thin slices of buttered toast and pour the sauce over. Serve hot. Mushrooms for Garnish. — Take fresh - gathered button - mushrooms, cut off the stems, and wash them in a little cold water, then drain. Have ready squeezed the juice of half a lemon, put it with a small cup of cold water into an enamelled stewpan, into which throw each mushroom as it is peeled ; /add I oz. of butter and a little salt. Place the stewpan over the fire, bring it quickly to a boil, and in five minutes use the mush- rooms as required. A good cook will know how to utilize the stems and peel of the mushrooms. In this case they may be chopped small and stewed in the gravy left after boiling the buttons. These trimmings are useful for flavoring dishes or soups. Mushrooms, Grilled. — Cut the stalks, peel, and score lightly the under side of large mushroom flaps, which should be firm, and fresh gath- ered. Season them with pepper

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