Stewed Celery

Ingredients

• Wash the stalks clean, cut them into inch-long pieces
• Add a cupful of cream or milk
• a little flour rubbed smooth in a table-spoonful of butter
• Add salt and pepper, and serve

Method

1. 1

   Wash the stalks clean, cut them into inch-long pieces, and soak for an hour in cold water.

2. 2

   Drain, and place the celery in a stew-pan with boiling water to cover; let it simmer slowly for half an hour.

3. 3

   Add the cream or milk, and when the liquid boils, thicken it to a cream with the flour and butter mixture.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 118. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STEWED CELERY. Wash the stalks clean, cut them into inch-long pieces, and soak an hour in cold water. Drain, and place the celery in a stew-pan, with boiling water to cover ; and let it simmer slowly half an hour, by which time the water should be so reduced as to measure not quite half a cupful. Add a cupful of cream or milk, and when the liquid boils, thicken it to a cream 270 THE PATTERN COOK-BOOK. with a little flour rubbed smooth in a table-spoonful of butter. Add salt and pepper, and serve

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