Spaghetti and Gravy

Ingredients

• ½ lb. of butter
• four table-spoonfuls of sweet oil
• three cloves of garlic
• one cupful of dried mushrooms
• half a can of tomatoes
• half a teaspoonful of thyme
• a few bay-leaves

Method

1. 1

   Stew garlic in oil and butter until brown.

2. 2

   Add dried mushrooms and their soaking water, then meat, and stew until shredded.

3. 3

   Add tomatoes, thyme, and bay leaves, and cook slowly for about an hour and a half.

4. 4

   Cook spaghetti in a large pot of water.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Harper's cook book encyclopædia (1902), page 248. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Spaghetti and Gravy. — The gravy : lb. of butter, four table-spoonfuls of sweet oil, three cloves of garlic. Stew the garlic in the oil and butter until the garlic is brown. Put in then one cupful of dried mushrooms, and stew, adding the water that the mushrooms were soaked in. Then add any sort of meat, and stew it well (until it is all in rags) ; add half a can of tomatoes, half a teaspoon- ful of thyme, and a few bay-leaves

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