Mushrooms Preserved in Butter

Ingredients

• 1 quart of nice white small button mushrooms
• Yg pound of butter
• 1 gill of water

Method

1. 1

   Peel 1 quart of nice white small button mushrooms, put them into cold water with a little lemon juice; take out and dry with a clean napkin.

2. 2

   Place in a saucepan over the fire with 0.5 pound of butter and 1 gill of water, simmer for 15 minutes; put them with their juice into glass jars screwed down tightly; set in a vessel of cold water over the fire to boil for 1 hour.

3. 3

   If there is not enough juice to cover the mushrooms in the jars, more melted butter must be added.

4. 4

   When opened in winter, the butter can be used for sauce.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 340. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Hushrooms preserved in Bntter.— Peel 1 quart of nice white small button mushrooms, put them into cold water with a little lemon juice ; take out and dry with a clean napkin. Place in a saucepan over the fire with Yg pound of butter and 1 gill of water, simmer 15 minutes; put them with their juice into glass jars screwed down tightly ; set in a vessel of cold water over the fire to boil 1 hour

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