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Flan of Celery

A historical recipe from Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen, by Janet Ross.

A historical recipe

Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen; or, How to cook vegetables, by Janet Ross. Project Gutenberg eBook #69370.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Also printed in: Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen (1900).

Source and licence

From Leaves from our Tuscan kitchen, by Janet Ross. Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #69370 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69370). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Clean and boil three or four heads of celery.
  2. Then drain well, and chop them up very fine.
  3. Mix one tablespoonful of flour and three-quarters of an ounce of butter in a sauce-pan, and add the celery and one pint of milk.
  4. Reduce, then take the sauce-pan off the fire, and when cold add the yolks of six eggs, and some allspice.
  5. Put all into a shape, and cook it slowly with fire above and below, or in an oven, for half an hour.
  6. An Alla Panna sauce (see Sauces, p.
  7. 125) can be served with it.