Salted Herrings served with French Beans

Ingredients

• Clean some recently-salted Herrings
• Work loz. of butter
• 1 table-spoonful of flour
• 1 teaspoonful of finely-chopped winter savory
• season them with salt and pepper
• Cut some French beans lengthwise into slices

Method

1. 1

   Clean and slice the herrings.

2. 2

   Boil sliced French beans in broth, then simmer until tender.

3. 3

   Work butter with flour, stir into beans, and season.

4. 4

   Serve beans on a hot dish with herrings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 105. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Clean some recently-salted Herrings, cut off the heads, skin and cut them into slices, and arrange them on a small dish garnished with green leaves. Cut some French beans lengthwise into slices, put them in a saucepan with a small quantity of broth, boil, then move the saucepan to the side of the fire, Fig. 955. Salted Herrings served with French Beans. and simmer gently till tender. When the beans are cooked, the broth should be reduced. Work loz. of butter with 1 table-spoonful of flour, then stir it in with the beans ; season them with 1 teaspoonful of finely-chopped winter savory

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