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French Carrots

From New Health Cookery (1930).

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A historical recipe

New Health Cookery, by Bengamin Gayelord Hauser (1930).

France

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

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. a tablespoon of butter
  2. one-half cup water
  3. one onion

Cook safely

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

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • 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. Scrub but do not peel young carrots.
  2. Slice round.
  3. Place a tablespoon of butter in a frying pan, add one onion cut fine to the carrots.
  4. Let fry until slightly browned;
  5. add one-half cup water and vegetable salt.
  6. Cover and simmer until tender.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Vegetable peeler
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Credit

From New Health Cookery (1930), printed page 12, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bwb_Y0-DCL-548

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.