To Ragout French Beans

Ingredients

• Boil some beans till tender
• put in a piece of butter
• dredge in flour
• peel a large onion
• a little pepper
• salt
• nutmeg
• the yolk of an egg
• some cream

Method

1. 1

   Boil beans until tender.

2. 2

   In a stew-pan, melt butter and dredge in flour.

3. 3

   Fry sliced onion until brown, then add beans, pepper, salt, and nutmeg.

4. 4

   Stir in egg yolk and cream, and dish up.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 196. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Ragout French Beans. Boil some beans till tender, then take your stew-pan and put in a piece of butter; when it is melted, dredge in flour; then peel a large onion, slice and fry it brown in the butter ; next put in the beans, with a little pepper, salt, and nutmeg; boil up, and add the yolk of an egg and some cream

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