Puree de Choux-fleurs a la Creme

Ingredients

• 2 small cauliflowers
• 6 oz. crushed tapioca
• 0.5 oz. ground rice (fecule de riz)
• 0.5 oz. caster sugar
• 1 gill cream
• 1 pint milk
• 1 pint white stock
• salt, pepper, nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Wash and trim the cauliflowers, cook them in salted water until tender, strain (keep the water), and rub through a fine sieve.

2. 2

   Bring the water in which the cauliflowers have been cooked to a boil, stir in the crushed tapioca, and simmer for twenty minutes.

3. 3

   Mix the fecule de riz with a little cold milk, boil up the remainder of milk with the stock, stir in the ground rice and cook for a few minutes, stirring all the while.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new century cookery book (1901) by Charles Herman Senn, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt, pepper, nutmeg, parsley . Cut off the stems of the artichokes, trim off some of the green leaves, cut each in four, ancl wash well. Melt the butter in a stewpan, add the onion, peeled and cut in slices ; fry a little, put in the artichokes, and stir over the fire for a few minutes, but do not let them take colour. Add the stock, season with salt and pepper, and let simmer until tender. Rub all through a hair sieve. Mix the creme de riz or ground rice with a little cold milk, boil up the remainder of the milk and add to the rice-flour. Put this and the artichoke puree in a stewpan, let it boil up, take off the scum, stir frequently to prevent it from burning ; beat the yolks of eggs a little, incorporate with the cream, and add to the soup when the latter has sufficiently boiled. Add a grate of nutmeg, stir long enough to bind the eggs, but on no account allow it to boil again. Pour into a soup- tureen, sprinkle over with a little finely chopped parsley, and serve. 169. Puree de Choux-fleurs a la Creme. — 2 small cauli- flowers, 6 oz. crushed tapioca, oz. ground rice ( fecule de riz), ^ oz. caster sugar, 1 gill cream, 1 pint milk, 1 pint white stock

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