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From The young wife's cook book (1870).

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A historical recipe

The young wife's cook book, by Hannah Mary Bouvier Peterson (1870).

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 2 ingredients

  1. two ounces of butter
  2. a gill 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. 240.
  2. Take six neck chops, -crack the bone of each across the middle, and put tliem into a stew-pan.
  3. Cut up and wash two large heads of celery and mix with the meat;
  4. pepper and salt to the taste.
  5. Roll two ounces of butter in a little flour and add to it, with half a gill of water.
  6. Cover it closely, and let it simmer slowly till the celery is soft.
  7. If the gravy stews away too much, add a little water ;
  8. and if it should not be quite thick enough, stir in a little flour mixed with cold water.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The young wife's cook book (1870), printed page 242, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/youngwifescookbo1870pete

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.