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Baked Mushrooms

A historical recipe from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the, by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira), Hugo Ziemann (1887).

A historical recipe

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home, by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira), Hugo Ziemann (1887). Project Gutenberg eBook #13923.

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Source and licence

From The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the, by Gillette, F. L. (Fanny Lemira), Hugo Ziemann (1887). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #13923 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13923). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Prepare them the same as for stewing.
  2. Place them in a baking-pan in a moderate oven.
  3. Season with salt, pepper, lemon juice and chopped parsley.
  4. Cook in the oven fifteen minutes, baste with butter.
  5. Arrange on a dish and pour the gravy over them.
  6. Serve with sauce made by heating a cup of cream, two ounces of butter, a tablespoonful of chopped parsley, a little cayenne pepper, salt, a tablespoonful of white sauce and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice.
  7. Put in a saucepan and set on the fire.
  8. Stir until thick, but do not let boil.
  9. Mushrooms are very nice placed on slices of well-buttered toast when set into the oven to bake.
  10. They cook in about fifteen minutes.