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Artichokes With Melted Butter

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Artichokes
  2. Cut
  3. Salt
  4. 1 quart of water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Artichokes are in season from May to October.
  2. Take 4 good artichokes, fresh cut and young ;
  3. cut ^ mcil olJ the top of each artichoke, and a few leaves of!
  4. the bottom, and turn the latter with a knife, in the same way as directed for Turned Mushrooms {vide page 47).
  5. Wash and boil the artichokes in plenty of salted water, 4 o ..
  6. of salt to 1 quart of water.
  7. .

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Spatula
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Credit

From The royal cookery book (le livre de cuisine) (1869), printed page 104, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b28125605

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.