Stewed Celery

Ingredients

• one head of celery
• two ounces of butter
• one ounce of flour
• three gills of milk
• one half teaspoonful of pepper
• one teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Wash and cut celery into inch lengths.

2. 2

   Cook in boiling water until tender.

3. 3

   Drain, mix milk and flour, season, and pour over celery.

4. 4

   Return to heat, stir until boiling, then add butter and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stewed Celery. — Prepare : one head of celery, two ounces of butter, one ounce of flour, three gills of milk, one half tea-spoonful of pepper, one tea-spoonful of salt. "Wash the celery thoroughly, cut it into inch lengths, when it should be put into a sauce-pan, covered with boiling water, and cooked until tender, the length of time for which de- pends entirely upon the age and quality of the celery. When tender the water must be poured off, the milk and flour mixed together in a bowl, which season with the pepper and salt, and pouring it over the celery, return the sauce-pan to the fire, stirring all until the milk boils, when the butter must be added and the stew served hot. Boiled Beets. — Provide : six medium -sized beets, one half pint of vinegar, one blade of mace, one half tea-spoonful 116 VEGETABLES. of white pepper-corns, one half tea-spoonful of black pepper- corns, one ounce of butter, one tea-spoonful of sal

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