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(Clionx-fleurs a In sauce)

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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. 1 teaspoonful of salt
  2. Water
  3. Cut

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. Cut off the stem and remove the outer leaves, allow it to soak in cold salt and water for an hour before it is cooked ;
  2. put the cauliflower head downwards into a pan of boiling water, containing 1 teaspoonful of salt to each quart ;
  3. allow it to boil rather fast, with the lid off, 12 to 25 minutes, skimming occasionally ;
  4. drain and serve flower uppermost covered with white sauce (No.
  5. 100).
  6. CAULIFLOWER ( German Fashion )

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Colander
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Credit

From The housewife's manual of domestic cookery (1895), printed page 430, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21528494

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.